Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril."
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"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril."
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."
Oscar Wilde The Soul of Man Under Socialism
"“She lives the poetry she cannot write.”"
Oscar Wilde
"To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect."
Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband
"Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it."
Oscar Wilde
"nothing that is worth knowing can be taught"
Oscar Wilde
"All art is quite useless."
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
Oscar Wilde
"LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy."
Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance
"The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history."
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
"Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul."
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
Oscar Wilde
"People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately."
Oscar Wilde
"You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things... I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas"
Oscar Wilde
"Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."
Oscar Wilde
"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
Oscar Wilde The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
"“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”"
Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband
"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable."
Oscar Wilde
"Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping."
Oscar Wilde
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