Oscar Wilde Quotes
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And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,None knew so well as I:For he who lives more lives than oneMore deaths than one must die.
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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.
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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
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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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One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.
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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.
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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
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Experience is a question of instinct about life.
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Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.
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Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.
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Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror.
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Only the shallow know themselves.
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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.
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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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The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me.
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My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.
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Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art.