One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Death Quotes

To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim

To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim

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.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art...

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art...

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives....

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives....

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 husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know...

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know...

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It...

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It...

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they've gotta...

True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they've gotta...

One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one

One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one

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.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us;...

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us;...