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  • Oscar Wilde Quotes   1859
  • Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Beauty Quotes , Art Quotes
  • There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Real Quotes , Passion Quotes
  • If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Men Quotes , Political Quotes
  • I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Hands Quotes , World Quotes
  • There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Long Quotes , Waiting Quotes