I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

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Everything popular is wrong.

Everything popular is wrong.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,...

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,...

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

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

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth...

How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth...

A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It...

A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It...

I like men who have a future and women who have a past

I like men who have a future and women who have a past

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on...

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on...

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are...

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are...

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of...

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of...

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old...

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old...

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend...

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend...

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I...

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I...

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...

Your lifestyle - how you live, eat, emote, and think - determines your health. To...

Your lifestyle - how you live, eat, emote, and think - determines your health. To...

Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that....

Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that....

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be...

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be...

The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of...

The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of...

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality...

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality...