If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down. Oscar Wilde More Quotes by Oscar Wilde More Quotes From Oscar Wilde True friends stab you in the front. Oscar Wilde funny-lovebest-friendfriendship Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works. Oscar Wilde talentgeniusdrama Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination. Oscar Wilde common-senseimaginationcommon Most people are other people. Oscar Wilde existentialpeople All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life. Oscar Wilde aim-of-lifesakeart There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. Oscar Wilde marriagelovemen Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid. Oscar Wilde stupidmotivationalmean There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late Oscar Wilde resolutionmadetoo-late After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world. Oscar Wilde glassesdrinkingwish The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. Oscar Wilde useless-thingsexcuseart A gentleman never offends unintentionally Oscar Wilde gentleman Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal. Oscar Wilde appreciatepainart The only horrible thing in the world is ennui. Oscar Wilde horribleennuiworld My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality. Oscar Wilde being-differentrespectmistake Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. It seeks to show new perspectives and other choices. It is a way to help expand and liberate the consciousness; our experiences, understandings, imaginings, options and thereby our lives. Oscar Wilde menlyingart I have nothing to declare except my genuis. Oscar Wilde Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing. Oscar Wilde simpleinspirelife Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected. Oscar Wilde prejudicebeautyart Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. Oscar Wilde musiccreativeart Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities! Oscar Wilde luxurylet-mecan-do
