1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Oscar Wilde – [Sorrow]
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.
Oscar Wilde – [Style]
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Oscar Wilde – [Acting and Actors]
Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! — hang him!
Oscar Wilde – [Conspiracy]
Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde – [Poverty and The Poor]
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
Oscar Wilde – [Wickedness]
With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.
Oscar Wilde – [Investments]
Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
Oscar Wilde – [Fashion]
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes.
Oscar Wilde – [Compliments]
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Oscar Wilde – [Men and Women]
Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
Oscar Wilde – [Work]
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
Oscar Wilde – [Work]
Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.
Oscar Wilde – [Republican]
Yes; the public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde – [Public]
Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.
Oscar Wilde – [Love]
You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.
Oscar Wilde – [Aristocracy]
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
Oscar Wilde – [Youth]
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