Oscar Wilde Quotes
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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism...
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An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.
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One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious...
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Always keep love in your heart.
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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.
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You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.
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The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.
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It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.
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And all, but Lust, is turned to dustIn Humanity's machine.
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I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.
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You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.
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For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.
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The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
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It is what we fear that happens to us.
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An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.
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I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.
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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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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.