Home » Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde Irish - Author poet playwright 1 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 2 There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. Oscar Wilde Love, People, Emotions Add to Collection 3 The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. Oscar Wilde Intelligence, Genius, Public Add to Collection 4 '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 5 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 6 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 7 If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. Oscar Wilde Sympathy, World, Trouble Add to Collection 8 Biography lends to death a new terror. Oscar Wilde Death, New, Biography Add to Collection 9 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 10 I have never given adoration to any body except myself. Oscar Wilde Myself, Body, Never Add to Collection 11 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 12 Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. Oscar Wilde Good, Country, Anybody Add to Collection 13 When good Americans die they go to Paris. Oscar Wilde Good, Die, Paris Add to Collection 14 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 15 All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. Oscar Wilde Poetry, Feeling, Bad Add to Collection 16 There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies. Oscar Wilde People, Mean, Always Add to Collection 17 Charity creates a multitude of sins. Oscar Wilde Charity, Sins, Multitude Add to Collection 18 Writing bores me so. Oscar Wilde Writing, Me, Bores Add to Collection 19 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 20 It is always the unreadable that occurs. Oscar Wilde Always, Occurs Add to Collection 21 Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. Oscar Wilde Good, Bad, Fiction Add to Collection 22 There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. Oscar Wilde Self Confidence, Dying, Beyond Add to Collection 23 The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. Oscar Wilde Life, World, Happily Add to Collection 24 While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance. Oscar Wilde Myself, America, Never Add to Collection 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 next › last »
