I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Quotations
Oscar Wilde
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.
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.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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.
