Home » Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde Irish - Author poet playwright 1 The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. Oscar Wilde Intelligence, Genius, Public Add to Collection 2 'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure. Oscar Wilde Life, Art, Women Add to Collection 3 Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. Oscar Wilde Death, Facts, Away Add to Collection 4 Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting. Oscar Wilde Art, Romantic, Good Add to Collection 5 If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. Oscar Wilde Sympathy, World, Trouble Add to Collection 6 Biography lends to death a new terror. Oscar Wilde Death, New, Biography Add to Collection 7 What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. Oscar Wilde Art, Lying, Duty Add to Collection 8 I have never given adoration to any body except myself. Oscar Wilde Myself, Body, Never Add to Collection 9 The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. Oscar Wilde Sister, Technology, Machine Add to Collection 10 Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. Oscar Wilde Good, Country, Anybody Add to Collection 11 When good Americans die they go to Paris. Oscar Wilde Good, Die, Paris Add to Collection 12 Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. Oscar Wilde Great, Trying, Now Add to Collection 13 All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. Oscar Wilde Poetry, Feeling, Bad Add to Collection 14 There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies. Oscar Wilde People, Mean, Always Add to Collection 15 Charity creates a multitude of sins. Oscar Wilde Charity, Sins, Multitude Add to Collection 16 Writing bores me so. Oscar Wilde Writing, Me, Bores Add to Collection 17 As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. Oscar Wilde War, Long, Always Add to Collection 18 I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children. Oscar Wilde Children, Day, School Add to Collection 19 There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. Oscar Wilde Love, People, Emotions Add to Collection 20 There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all. Oscar Wilde Look, Realism, Actor Add to Collection 21 The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. Oscar Wilde Life, Love, Man Add to Collection 22 A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author. Oscar Wilde Art, Writing, Law Add to Collection 23 Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. Oscar Wilde Imagination, Spirit Add to Collection 24 Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book. Oscar Wilde Art, Work, Personality Add to Collection 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 next › last »
