Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. - Oscar Wilde
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde
I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful. - Oscar Wilde
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. - Oscar Wilde
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. - Oscar Wilde
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. - Oscar Wilde
I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children. - Oscar Wilde
If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame. - Oscar Wilde
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. - Oscar Wilde
In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it. - Oscar Wilde
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. - Oscar Wilde
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. - Oscar Wilde
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. - Oscar Wilde
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