Quote #204
In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.
More from Oscar Wilde
- The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.
- I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
- Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
- When a voice behind me whispered low, 'That fellow's got to swing.'
- Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
- Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward doe…
- Closed eyes listen, afraid to see on their own. Easily influenced and simply conformed.
- It is sweet to dance to violins When Love and Life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not swee…