Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
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All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
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Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
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Only love can keep anyone alive...
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Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
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The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
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Only good questions deserve good answers.
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Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
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In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.
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Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
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Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
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One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.
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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.
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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.