"I made art a philosophy, and philosophy..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.”

“It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless.”

“As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.”

“Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.”

“All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.”

“Originality will be rewarded in any line.”

“The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth: they had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a Transcendentalist; for then is he paralyzed, and can never do anything for humanity.”

“Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.”

“The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.”