Oscar Wilde

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

Oscar Wilde

All art is quite useless.

Oscar Wilde

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

Oscar Wilde

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

Oscar Wilde

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

Oscar Wilde

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

Oscar Wilde

All criticism is a form of autobiography.

Oscar Wilde

All great ideas are dangerous.

Oscar Wilde

All sins, except a sin against itself, love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true love should pardon.

Oscar Wilde

All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.

Oscar Wilde