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Oscar Wilde Quotes

Irish - Dramatist | October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Art Lying Duty Old Our Revive

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

Good Art Romantic People Good People

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

Myself Body Never Given Except Any

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Community Money Rich Think Nothing

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Death New Biography Terror Lends

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Work Curse Drinking Classes

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

Good Opinion Society Same Everyone

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Questions Sometimes Never Answers

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

I Am World Person Know Only Like

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Death Facts Explain Two Away Cannot

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

Ugly Bad Worthless Us Ornament

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

Artist Function Invent Chronicle

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