How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. - Oscar Wilde
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. - Oscar Wilde
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde
I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful. - Oscar Wilde
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. - Oscar Wilde
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. - Oscar Wilde
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. - Oscar Wilde
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. - Oscar Wilde
I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist. - Oscar Wilde
I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children. - Oscar Wilde
If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame. - Oscar Wilde
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