Quote

No art ever survived censorship no art ever will.

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
Censorship
Survived
Art
Ever

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.
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
I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.
Oscar Wilde
Image
No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.
Oscar Wilde
Image
It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing
Oscar Wilde
Image
I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
Oscar Wilde
Image
However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The good we get from art is not what we learn from it it is what we become through it.
Oscar Wilde
Image
It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.
Oscar Wilde
Image
They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.
Oscar Wilde
Image
As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!
Oscar Wilde
Image
He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Extravagance is the luxury of the poor penury is the luxury of the rich.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.
Oscar Wilde