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 WildeHe lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize
Oscar WildeA map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.
Oscar WildeThe form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.
Oscar Wilde