Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Oscar Wilde Quotes

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot...

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot...

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is...

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is...

Only the shallow know themselves.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when...

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when...

All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

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...

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 is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is...

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is...

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything, and when they grow older, they know...

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything, and when they grow older, they know...

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich

Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Conversation is the art of speaking without thinking.

Conversation is the art of speaking without thinking.

It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it...

It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it...

Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, I hear them all at...

Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, I hear them all at...

A day without sunshine is like...night!

A day without sunshine is like...night!