And beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has its divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.


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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utteranc...
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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generatio...
OSCAR WILDE
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating t...
OSCAR WILDE
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beau...
OSCAR WILDE
I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across ... Please do not shoot t...
OSCAR WILDE
I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
OSCAR WILDE
Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your...
OSCAR WILDE
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
OSCAR WILDE
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go
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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then mere...
OSCAR WILDE
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and lit...
OSCAR WILDE
Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteent...
OSCAR WILDE
No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter enti...
OSCAR WILDE
The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of...
OSCAR WILDE
The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that...
OSCAR WILDE
It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it
OSCAR WILDE
Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem ne...
OSCAR WILDE
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
OSCAR WILDE
Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's ow...
OSCAR WILDE
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
OSCAR WILDE
To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is...
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Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes
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Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
OSCAR WILDE
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is...
OSCAR WILDE
The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of ...
OSCAR WILDE
And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness...
OSCAR WILDE
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
OSCAR WILDE
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive t...
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