Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.
Oscar WildeThe way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.
Oscar WildeDeath and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Oscar Wilde