Oscar Wilde

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

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

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

True friends stab you in the front.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.