Quotes from Oscar Wilde

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain, danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks.

Oh, I love London Society! It has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

I find I have, and a heart doesn't suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn't go with modern dress. It makes one look old.

Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

I like to do all the talking myself.  It saves time, and prevents arguments." "But

And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, 'You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return.