Oscar Wilde

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they …

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

Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

And down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandalled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.