Oscar Wilde ( 10 of 342 )
Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life.
Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions read more
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having read more
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life
Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly read more
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates read more
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked on read more
As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked on as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities
Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities
