Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.
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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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When a voice behind me whispered low,'That fellow's got to swing.'
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Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.
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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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For a sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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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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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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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.
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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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Be yourself; everyone else is taken.
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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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Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.
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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
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To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
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Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.
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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.
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To be in love is to surpass one's self.
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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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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.