Nowadays all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors live like married men.
Oscar Wilde Quotes
By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful, this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray.
Authority is quite degrading.
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! Some kill their love when they are young, And some when they are old; Some strangle […]
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
Art never expresses anything but itself.
I am not sure I like it myself. But catastrophes in life bring about catastrophes in art. (on his Ballad of Reading Gaol)
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
All art is quite useless.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
