Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes, Censorship Quotes

No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Censorship Quotes

It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Beauty Quotes , Heart Quotes

Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Passion Quotes , Differences Quotes

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Trying Quotes , Poverty Quotes

Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Wise Quotes , Dies Quotes

However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Funny Quotes , Sarcastic Quotes

Miss Prism: And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray. Chasuble: But is a man not equally attractive when married? Miss Prism: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. Chasuble: And often, I've been told, not even to her.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Men Quotes , Doctors Quotes

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Feelings Quotes , Inferiority Quotes

Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Progress Quotes

I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this is what I am looking for. It is absolutely necessary for me to find it somewhere.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Tired Quotes

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Eye Quotes

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Life Quotes , Learning Quotes

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Funny Quotes , Sarcastic Quotes

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Insulting Quotes

I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Air Quotes , Ideas Quotes

If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , People Quotes , Laughing Quotes

So lets knock a couple back and make some noise

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Couple Quotes , Drinking Quotes

In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Men Quotes

The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , London Quotes , Notes Quotes

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Real Quotes , Successful Quotes