Art only begins where Imitation ends.
Oscar Wilde
Profession: Dramatist Nationality: Irish
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly, but I don't see any chance of it just at present.
We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
She is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.
The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
The only thing I have to declare is my genius.
In a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will hold its purple stars.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
What o'clock is it, Victor? asked Dorian Gray, sleepily.
A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.
I don't believe in the existence of Puritan women. I don't think there is a woman in the world who would not be a little flattered if one made love to her. It is that which makes women so irresistibly adorable.
I beseech thee, for their days are as the days of flowers. And as for my soul, what doth my soul profit me, if it stand between me and the thing that I love?
Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.
