Quote

If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

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
Keep
Art
Must
Reserved
Critic
Seats
Critics
Train
Special

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
She is a peacock in everything but beauty!
Oscar Wilde
Image
In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.
Oscar Wilde
Image
If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
Oscar Wilde
Image
He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Oscar Wilde
Image
He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.
Oscar Wilde
Image
God and other artists are always a little obscure.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.
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
Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I wrote when I did not know life now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written life can only be lived.
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
Art should never be popular.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.
Oscar Wilde
Image
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Music is the perfect type of art.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.
Oscar Wilde