Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell…

Quote by Oscar Wilde

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Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose....

Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose....

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do,...

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do,...

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no...

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no...

There is no sin except stupidity.

There is no sin except stupidity.

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth.

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should...

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should...

Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct:...

Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct:...

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things...

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things...

Selfishness is not living as one wisheThe cynic knows the price of everything and the...

Selfishness is not living as one wisheThe cynic knows the price of everything and the...

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation...

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation...

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called...

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called...

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But...

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But...

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses...

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses...

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that...

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that...