It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
Oscar WildeI 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 WildeChildren begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar WildeLove does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.
Oscar Wilde