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Oscar Wilde
In going to...
In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to...
He to whom...
He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he...
The imagination imitates....
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Source:...
Bad art is...
Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
Source: House Decoration,...
Those whom the...
Those whom the gods love grow young.
Source: A Few Maxims for the Instruction of...
In America the...
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their...
On the whole,...
On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle,...
Better the rule...
Better the rule of One, whom all obey,
Than to let clamorous demagogues betray
Our freedom with the kiss of...
For an artist...
For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the...
There should be...
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their...
The American father....
The American father. . . is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his...
How else but...
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Source: The Ballad...
The poet is...
The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord...
The world is...
The world is a stage, but the play's badly cast.
Source: Lord Arthur Savile's...
What is said...
What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.
Source: De Profundis,...
The Bostonians take...
The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their...
No artist has...
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of...
In a very...
In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
There is no...
There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.
Where there is...
Where there is no exaggeration there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding. It is only...