"Art only begins where Imitation ends...." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!”

“Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same.”

“Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.”

“Virtue runs before the muse,and defies her skill;she is rapt and doth refuseto wait a painter's will.”

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

“I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.”

“And Paul hits this chord, and I turn to him and say, 'That's it! Do that again!' In those days we really used to absolutely write like that - both playing into each other's noses.”

“Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.”