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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
By Oscar Wilde
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
By Oscar Wilde
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
By Oscar Wilde
The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
By Oscar Wilde
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
By Oscar Wilde
Punctuality is the thief of time. Wilde I never travel without my diary. One should always have Something sensational to read in the train.
By Oscar Wilde
Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.
By Oscar Wilde
Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
By Oscar Wilde
One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.
By Oscar Wilde
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.
By Oscar Wilde
I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
By Oscar Wilde
Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
By Oscar Wilde
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness.
By Oscar Wilde
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
By Oscar Wilde
...music is the perfect type of art. Music can never reveal its ultimate secret. This, also, is the explanation of the value of limitations in art. The sculptor gladly surrenders imitative colour, and the painter the actual dimensions of form, because by such renunciations they are able to avoid too definite a presentation of the Real, which would be mere imitation, and too definite a realisation of the Ideal, which would be too purely intellectual. It is through its very incompleteness that art becomes complete in beauty, and so addresses itself, not to the faculty of recognition nor to the faculty of reason, but to the aesthetic sense alone, which, while accepting both reason and recognition as stages of apprehension, subordinates them both to a pure synthetic impression of the work of art as a whole, and, taking whatever alien emotional elements the work may possess, uses their very complexity as a means by which a richer unity may be added to the ultimate impression itself.
By Oscar Wilde
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
By Oscar Wilde
When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.
By Oscar Wilde