Oscar Wilde

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you read more

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions read more

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. read more

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates read more

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life