As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
