Quote

Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

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
Shape
Shapes
Voice
Art
Nature
Bestial
Things
Hideous
Like
Voices
Monsters

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.
Oscar Wilde
Image
It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
Oscar Wilde
Image
My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde
Image
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.
Oscar Wilde
Image
You and I will always be friends. Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Sphinxes without secrets.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.
Oscar Wilde
Image
There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.
Oscar Wilde
Image
He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.
Oscar Wilde
Image
We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar Wilde
Image
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.
Oscar Wilde