Oscar Wilde

A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

Oscar Wilde

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

Oscar Wilde

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

Oscar Wilde

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Oscar Wilde

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

Oscar Wilde

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

Oscar Wilde

A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.

Oscar Wilde

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

Oscar Wilde

A woman’s life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man’s life progresses.

Oscar Wilde

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

Oscar Wilde