His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else’s music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly – that is what each of us is here for.
Oscar Wilde Quotes
There is no sin except stupidity.
I have the simplest of tastes. I easily get satisfied with the best.
And as a high moral tone can hardly be said to conduce very much to either one’s health or one’s happiness, in order to get up to town I have always pretended to have a younger brother of the name of Ernest, who lives in the Albany, and gets into the most dreadful scrapes. That, […]
Lewis Morris: “It is a conspiracy of silence against me – a conspiracy of silence! What should I do?” Oscar Wilde: “Join it.”
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.
