Oscar Wilde Quotes

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Oscar Wilde

Profession : Poet

Birth : October 16, 1854

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Oscar Wilde

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

Oscar Wilde

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Oscar Wilde

'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.

Oscar Wilde

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Oscar Wilde

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

Oscar Wilde

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Oscar Wilde