"Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”

“We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”

“The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.”

“this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night”

“We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.”

“The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.”

“The sun is up, the sky is blue It's beautiful, and so are you.”

“Most works are most beautiful without ornament.”

“What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.”