Quote

Art persists, it timelessly continues.

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
Timelessly
Persists
Persist
Continues
Art

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Prism! Where is that baby?
Oscar Wilde
Image
We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.
Oscar Wilde
Image
To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.
Oscar Wilde
Image
There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.
Oscar Wilde
Image
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Sphinxes without secrets.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.
Oscar Wilde
Image
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
Image
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Oscar Wilde
Image
At six o'clock we cleaned our cells, At seven all was still, But the sough and swing of a mighty wing The prison seemed to fill, For the Lord of Death with icy breath Had entered in to kill.
Oscar Wilde