More quotes by Oscar Wilde

"A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author."
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
"Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works."
"If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame."
"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."