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 This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.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
Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. - Oscar Wilde
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. - Oscar Wilde
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone. - Oscar Wilde
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. - Oscar Wilde
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. - Oscar Wilde
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. - Oscar Wilde
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. - Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. - Oscar Wilde
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. - Oscar Wilde
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. - Oscar Wilde
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart. - Oscar Wilde
