Beautiful and Impossible Things - Selected Essays of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Top 10 Best Quotes
“If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.”
“Besides, it is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.”
“Ours is certainly the dullest and most prosaic century possible.”
“It is style that makes us believe in a thing – nothing but style.”
“I am afraid that there is not much to be said in favour of either the lawyer or the journalist.”
“Who indeed, in these degenerate days, would hesitate between an ode and an omelette, a sonnet and a salmi?”
“We have mistaken the common livery of the age for the vesture of the Muses, and spend our days in the sordid streets and hideous suburbs of our vile cities when we should be out on the hillside with Apollo. Certainly we are a degraded race, and have sold our birthright for a mess of facts.”
“Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.”
“Then there is the true Academy model. He is usually a man of thirty, rarely good-looking, but a perfect miracle of muscles. In fact he is the apotheosis of anatomy, and is so conscious of his own splendour that he tells you of his tibia and his thorax, as if no one else had anything of the kind.”
“The only real people are the people who never existed.”
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