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

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Creativity Quotes

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner...

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner...

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other...

Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other...

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a...

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a...

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take...

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take...

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one...

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one...

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty,...

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty,...

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the...

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the...

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it...

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it...

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...

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...

We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we...

We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we...

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his...

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his...

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

A woman can give a man a million reasons to be faithful, and he will...

A woman can give a man a million reasons to be faithful, and he will...

Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success

Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success

There is no permanent love but that which has duty for its eldest brother; so...

There is no permanent love but that which has duty for its eldest brother; so...

The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.