Oscar Wilde Quotes

Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning. He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.

The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture...In a house, we all feel of the proper proportions. Everything is subordinated to us, fashioned for our use and our pleasure.

[E]verybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

Why, what a wonderful piece of luck! Here is a red rose! I have never seen any rose like it in all my life. It is so beautiful that I am sure it has a long Latin name.

Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.

"She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses," cried the young Student; "but in all my garden there is no red rose."

To drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play, Is it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control? Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll Scrawled over on some boyish holiday With idle songs for pipe and virelay, Which do but mar the secret of the whole.

I cannot understand your nature. If my nature had been made to suit your comprehension rather than my own requirements, I am afraid I would have made a very poor figure in the world.

When a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.