Art Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Miss Aubrey, come and have pity on us. We are reading novels and feel our manliness diminishing by the moment. Come restore our vanity,…

— Julie Klassen

“Her earnestness and apparent belief of what she narrated, excited the interest even of Aubrey; and often, as she told him the tale of…

— John William Polidori

“I turned halfway round, and saw Dorian Gray for the first time. When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A…

— Oscar Wilde

“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible,…

— Simona Panova

“Much of what animated me in those days I now recognize as the romantic yearnings of an idealistic, alienated, and aimless young man. I…

— Stephen Batchelor

“Happy the writer who, passing by characters that are boring, disgusting, shocking in their mournful reality, approaches characters that manifest the lofty dignity of…

— Nikolai Gogol

“Beauty - the beauty Peter craves - is this, then: a human bundle of accidental grace and doom and hope. Mizzy must have hope,…

— Michael Cunningham

“Under all his culture, his cleverness, his amenity, under his good-nature, his facility, his knowledge of life, his egotism lay hidden like a serpent…

— Henry James

“Now the spectacle was before him in its glory, and as he looked out on it he felt shy, old-fashioned, inadequate: a mere grey…

— Edith Wharton

“had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would…

— Oscar Wilde

“...and in repose one might have admired so fine a specimen of English manhood, until the foppish ways, the affected movements, the perpetual inane…

— Emmuska Orczy

“he was carried aloft, for the moment, on one of those great waves of hope from which he was usually plunged deep into the…

— Émile Zola