More quotes by Oscar Wilde

"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level."
"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise"
"A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author."
"There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all."
"Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing."