Wilde

Famous quotes containing the word wilde:

“The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“Who is that man over there? I don’t know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him!—hang him!”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“Pleasure is Nature’s test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)