Oct 16, 1854 - Nov 30, 1900
was an Irish writer and poet
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The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man's intelligence.
LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.
One's dreams must be big enough so as not to lose sight of them.
The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.
And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.
A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.
A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.
The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.
I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure
Everyone should keep someone else's diary.
Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it
The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.
Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.
Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.
I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.
No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself
I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.
What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.
I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.
I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much
The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.
PsychologВy is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.
Progress is the realization of utopia.
The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
