Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. Oscar Wilde More Quotes by Oscar Wilde More Quotes From Oscar Wilde Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. Oscar Wilde moderation meals enough An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different. Oscar Wilde eggs food adventure The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition. Oscar Wilde design care art Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. Oscar Wilde moments suffering long And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.) Oscar Wilde dying mean death Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos. Oscar Wilde reaper threshold sweet It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true. Oscar Wilde gossip truth funny If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream. Oscar Wilde expression dream reality The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer. Oscar Wilde singers done literature What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere? Oscar Wilde spheres intellectual mind No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. Oscar Wilde beautiful beauty funny Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so. Oscar Wilde infancy interest art The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats Oscar Wilde crush beautiful memories The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed. Oscar Wilde america people world True love is just like regular love, but with more truth. Oscar Wilde true-love-is love-is Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you. Oscar Wilde affection perfection lying She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm. Oscar Wilde secret beautiful america The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms. Oscar Wilde beauty country art Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won’t you? You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. For the last three months? Oscar Wilde love-you silly boys Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent oft he hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man? Oscar Wilde blow heart sweet
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