Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.
Oscar Wilde
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Make
Fact
Preventing
Use
Forms
Means
Authority
Facts
Expression
Art
Progress
Classics
Form
Public
Checking
Country
Beauty
Degrade
Mean
Free
Authorities
More quotes by Oscar Wilde
The good we get from art is not what we learn from it it is what we become through it.
Oscar Wilde
My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.
Oscar Wilde
After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.
Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde
The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.
Oscar Wilde
To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.
Oscar Wilde
It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.
Oscar Wilde
All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.
Oscar Wilde
Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
Oscar Wilde
You told me you had destroyed it. I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
Oscar Wilde
Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.
Oscar Wilde
In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.
Oscar Wilde
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
Oscar Wilde
Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
Oscar Wilde
Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.
Oscar Wilde
Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Oscar Wilde
If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.
Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.
Oscar Wilde
When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.
Oscar Wilde
In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.
Oscar Wilde
