Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
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For a sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
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Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.
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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.
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To be in love is to surpass one's self.
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We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
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If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.
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A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
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It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
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Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.
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The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me.
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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
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Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.
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A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.
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To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.
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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.