Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.
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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
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People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.
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The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.
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Every thing to be true must become a religion.
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How else but through a broken heartMay Lord Christ enter in?
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Prism! Where is that baby?
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Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.
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I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.
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To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.
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The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us. In some tiny ivory cell the brain stores the most delicate, and the most fleeting impressions.
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The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.
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However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.
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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
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I never change, except in my affections.
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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.
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The people who have adored me — there have not been very many, but there have been some — have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.
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The man had killed the thing he loved, And so he had to die.
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.
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Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.
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There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.
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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.
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The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.