I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Quotations
Oscar Wilde
One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
One is absolutely sickened, not by crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
I see when men love women, they give them but a little of their lives. But women, when they love give everything.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
Imagination is a quality given to a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humour is provided to console him for what he is.
