Oscar Wilde Quotes.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
True friends stab you in the front.
I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
