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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. — Oscar Wilde
You talk books away," he said; "why don't you write one?" "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Erskine. I should like to write a novel certainly, a novel that would be as lovely as a Persian carpet and as unreal. — Oscar Wilde
Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life ... I have put only my talent into my works. — Oscar Wilde
They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist. — Oscar Wilde
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all. — Oscar Wilde
Writing bores me so. — Oscar Wilde
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature. — Oscar Wilde
My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain. — Oscar Wilde
Whatever one writes, comes to pass. — Oscar Wilde
Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned. — Oscar Wilde
What you read when you don't have to ... — Oscar Wilde
How do you thank someone like Woody Allen or Milan Kundera - when they have shared ideas with you that are no less than life-saving, when they have given you some of your happiest moments, sharing what they have learned like a parent or a friend? Do you hunt them down and shake their hand? Do you ask for their autograph? Would that even the balance? And how do you thank Orson Welles or Oscar Wilde - people who are no longer with us? There is only one way to show your gratitude, and that is to give their precious gift back, return it the way you received it: write. — Anthony Marais
Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul. — Oscar Wilde
As some people turned to religion for comfort, so, Highsmith wrote in her notebook in September 1970, she took refuge in her belief that she was making progress as a writer. But she realised that both systems of survival were, however, fundamentally illusory. She wrote, she said, quoting Oscar Wilde because, 'Work never seems to me a reality, but a way of getting rid of reality'. — Andrew Wilson
Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical. — Oscar Wilde
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody. — Oscar Wilde
I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living. — Oscar Wilde
That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time. — Oscar Wilde
I want to be able to do anything with words: handle slashing, flaming descriptions like Wells, and use the paradox with the clarity of Samuel Butler, the breadth of Bernard Shaw and the wit of Oscar Wilde, I want to do the wide sultry heavens of Conrad, the rolled-gold sundowns and crazy-quilt skies of Hitchens and Kipling as well as the pastel dawns and twilights of Chesterton. All that is by way of example. As a matter of fact I am a professed literary thief, hot after the best methods of every writer in my generation. — F Scott Fitzgerald
When Wilde composed his works he surrounded himself with books. A friend remembered him writing a poem 'with a botanical work in front of him from which he . . . [selected] the names of flowers most pleasing to the ear to plant in his garden of verse'.5 Aubrey Beardsley's caricature of Wilde, 'Oscar Wilde at Work', shows the author at his desk surrounded by mountains of books. — Thomas Wright
Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal. — Oscar Wilde
When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it. — Oscar Wilde
Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod. — Noel Coward
Do you mean to say you have had my cigarette case all this time? I wish to goodness you had let me know. I have been writing frantic letters to Scotland Yard about it. I was very nearly offering a large reward. Algernon. Well, I wish you would offer one. I happen to be more than usually hard up. — Oscar Wilde
Here is the difference between Oscar Wilde and me. For all the tortures he suffered, for all the ugliness of being punished for loving men, nobody read his lines and asked him: What does your husband think of that? Jail, exile
these were his lot. But never, What does your husband think?
Women may have the vote, but they are not free as long as that reaction erupts. Even those without husbands are judged as if they had offended them merely by writing the truth.
So immovable is the wall around a woman's freedom that she can't do a things without being asked to think of its effect upon some man who is presumed to be more important than she. — Erica Jong
George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar. — Oscar Wilde
I wish i could write them down, these little coloured parables or poems that live for a moment in some cell of my brain, and then leave it to go wandering elsewhere. I hate writing; the mere act of writing a thing down is troublesome to me. I want some fine medium, and look for it in vain. — Oscar Wilde
He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone. — Oscar Wilde
The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction. — Oscar Wilde
I wrote when I did not know life. Now that I know life, I have no more to write. — Oscar Wilde
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. — Oscar Wilde