Quotations From OSCAR WILDE

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• 271.

  It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

  Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Lord Henry, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 1 (1891).
  
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• 272.

  Yes; the public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

  Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Gilbert, in The Critic as Artist, pt. 1, published in Intentions (1891).
• 273.

  We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

  Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. The Picture of Dorian Gray, preface (1891).
• 274.

  Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

  Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Gilbert, in The Critic as Artist, pt. 1, published in Intentions (1891).
  
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• 275.

  Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

  Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Lord Goring, in An Ideal Husband, act 4.
  
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• 276.

  All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

  Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. De Profundis (1905). Wilde was tried for homosexual practices in 1895, and served a two-year sentence with hard labor, during which De Profundis—Wilde's letter of confession and reminiscence to his lover—was written.
  
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• 277.

  Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

  Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 11 (1891).
  
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• 278.

  When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.

  Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Mrs. Cheveley, in An Ideal Husband, act 3.
  
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• 279.

  When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

  Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Lord Goring, in An Ideal Husband, act 4.
  
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• 280.

  Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

  Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. "House Decoration," lecture, 1882, published in Aristotle at Afternoon Tea: The Rare Oscar Wilde (1991).