Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

"Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays."
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"Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays."
Oscar Wilde
"It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage."
Oscar Wilde
"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."
Oscar Wilde
"Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience."
Oscar Wilde
"A lily-girl, not made for this world’s pain."
Oscar Wilde
"It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings."
Oscar Wilde
"The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it."
Oscar Wilde
"The Noblest form of Affection"
Oscar Wilde
"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."
Oscar Wilde
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass. The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium"
Oscar Wilde
"Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance."
Oscar Wilde
"Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art"
Oscar Wilde
"God and other artists are always a little obscure..."
Oscar Wilde
"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."
Oscar Wilde
"Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic."
Oscar Wilde
"When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money"
Oscar Wilde
"What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine."
Oscar Wilde
"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."
Oscar Wilde
"It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection."
Oscar Wilde
"Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious."
Oscar Wilde
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