Oscar Wilde

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help…

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.…

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. Oscar Wilde

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. Oscar Wilde

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance. Oscar Wilde

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. Oscar Wilde

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which…

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects.…

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. Oscar Wilde

Yes, there is a terrible moral in ‘Dorian Gray’ – a moral which the prurient will not be able to…