If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.
Oscar WildeAn artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.
Oscar WildeDon't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.
Oscar WildeMen always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.
Oscar WildeThe value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.
Oscar Wilde