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Oscar Wilde: I have found...

Oscar Wilde: I have found...

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful...

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Oscar Wilde: All charming people,...

Oscar Wilde: All charming people,...

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

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Oscar Wilde: I should be...

Oscar Wilde: I should be...

I should be like a lion in a cave of savage Daniels.

Source: Explaining why he...

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Oscar Wilde: The man who...

Oscar Wilde: The man who...

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

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Oscar Wilde: To be good,...

Oscar Wilde: To be good,...

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount...

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Oscar Wilde: It is a...

Oscar Wilde: It is a...

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Source: Gilbert, in The Critic as Artist,...

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William Shakespeare: O, what a...

William Shakespeare: O, what a...

O, what a world of vile ill-favoured faults,
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a...

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William Shakespeare: Much is the...

William Shakespeare: Much is the...

Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy.

Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, III....

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William Shakespeare: We make trifles...

William Shakespeare: We make trifles...

We make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown...

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Jean Anouilh: Inspiration is a...

Jean Anouilh: Inspiration is a...

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

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William Wordsworth: A reasoning, self-sufficing...

William Wordsworth: A reasoning, self-sufficing...

A reasoning, self-sufficing thing,
An intellectual all-in-all.


Source: A Poet's...

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William Wordsworth: And I could...

William Wordsworth: And I could...

And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

Source: 'My...

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William Wordsworth: From the body...

William Wordsworth: From the body...

From the body of one guilty deed a 1000 ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.

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William Wordsworth: The flower that...

William Wordsworth: The flower that...

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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William Wordsworth: Nor less I...

William Wordsworth: Nor less I...

Nor less I deem that there are powers
Which of themselves our minds impress;
That we can feed this mind of...

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William Wordsworth: He spake of...

William Wordsworth: He spake of...

He spake of love, such love as spirits feel
In worlds whose course is equable and pure;
No fears to beat away -...

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William Wordsworth: Behold the child...

William Wordsworth: Behold the child...

Behold the child among his new-born blisses,
A six-years' darling of a pigmy size!


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William Wordsworth: Provoke<br>The years to...

William Wordsworth: Provoke
The years to...

Provoke
The years to bring the inevitable yoke.


Source: Ode. Intimations of...

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William Wordsworth: The clouds that...

William Wordsworth: The clouds that...

The clouds that gather round the setting sun
Do take a sober colouring from an eye
That hath kept watch o'er...

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William Wordsworth: Visionary power<br>Attends the...

William Wordsworth: Visionary power
Attends the...

Visionary power
Attends the motions of the viewless winds,
Embodied in the mystery of...

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