3,435 Quotes by Oscar Wilde

the King gave orders that the page's salary was to be doubled. As he received no salary at all this was not of much use to him, but it was considered a great honor, and was duly published in the Court Gazette.

He knew in what strange heavens they were suffering, and what dull hells were teaching them the secret of some new joy.

It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.

Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known

art had no moral responsibility. Art, he argued, should strive only to be a beautiful object entirely separate from its creator.

Le donne ci ispirano il desiderio di far dei capolavori e ci impediscono sempre di eseguirli

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