Quote

All art is quite useless.

Oscar Wilde

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Dublin city
Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Uselessness
Sarcastic
Useless
Creativity
Quite
Funny
Art

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde
Image
She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.
Oscar Wilde
Image
No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself
Oscar Wilde
Image
There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.
Oscar Wilde
Image
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
Oscar Wilde
Image
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I have a simple taste, only the best.
Oscar Wilde
Image
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
Oscar Wilde
Image
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
Oscar Wilde
Image
She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.
Oscar Wilde