Welcome to the magic world of Oscar Wilde’s creations

WELCOME TO THE MAGIC WORLD OF OSCAR WILDE’S CREATIONS

These are some cites from Oscar” Wilde’s writings famous for its elegance and exuberancy of style and full of catching paradoxes. O.W. best known creations are “The Picture of Dorian Gray” “Fairy Tales” some plays and poems.

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About art

– The artist is the creator of beautiful things.

– Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

– There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well

written, or badly written. That is all.

– No artist desires to prove anything.

– No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

– Everyportrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

About love

* A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

* Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance

* How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

* Women are made to be loved, not understood.

* I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything

* Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead

About education

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

About people and life

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.Read more at

A picture of Dorian Gray (extact)

"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence

is immoral--immoral from the scientific point of view."

"Why?"

"Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does

not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His

virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as

sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else's music, an

actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is

self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly--that is what each

of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They

have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to

one's self. … The terrorof society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion--these are the two things that govern us…

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