Suddenly I found myself face to face w.. Oscar Wilde

Suddenly I found myself face to face with the young man whose personality had so strangely stirred me.

Oscar Wilde

Profession: Dramatist
Nationality: Irish

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I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

How pale the Princess is! Never have I seen her so pale. She is like the shadow of a white rose in a mirror of silver.

Ah! this morning! You have lived since then!

London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.

I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me.

Mourn for Ophelia, if you like. Put ashes on your head because Cordelia was strangled. Cry out against Heaven because the daughter of Brabantio died. But don't waste your tears over Sibyl Vane. She was less real than they are.

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

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

In these modern days to be vulgar, illiterate, common and vicious, seems to give a man a marvellous infinity of rights that his honest fathers never dreamed of.

My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

Romantic art begins with its climax.

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

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