"It is not the perfect, but the..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.”

“It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.”

“I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.”

“We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.”

“Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid.”

“Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.”

“Never forget that a man is made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues. So we must not seek to rob a nation of its character, even if it could be proved that the character was all faults.”

“Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.”

“Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.”