Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar WildeThe world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
Oscar WildeWhen critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
Oscar WildeTags: artists
There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.
Oscar WildeThere are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
Oscar WildeThe worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.
Oscar WildeTags: books imprisonment
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
Oscar WildeTags: literature
One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.
Oscar WildeMiss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days.
Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.
Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied
Oscar WildeTags: women beauty satisfaction
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