“There is no such thing as good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral- immoral from a scientific point of view.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral - immoral from the scientific point of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I know of nothing in all drama more incomparable from the point of view of art, nothing more suggestive in its subtlety… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral,—immoral from the scientific point of view.’ ‘Why?’… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“For what are called criminals nowadays are not criminals at all. Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime. That… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are the artist’s materials for an art. From… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral—immoral from the scientific point of view.” “Why?” “Because… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable… — 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
