A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar WildeTag: poet-humor
High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Oscar WildeTag: democracy
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Oscar WildeTag: art
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.
Oscar WildeTag: humanity
In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.
Oscar WildeTag: journalists press
The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet’s dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
Oscar WildeThe English country gentleman galloping after the fox – the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
Oscar WildeOne's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
Oscar WildeThe great events of the world take place in the brain...
Oscar WildeA beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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