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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

Oscar Wilde
Morality, Emotion, Immorality
Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.437, University of Chicago Press

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Oscar Wilde
Graduation, Witty, Money
Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.4, Oscar Wilde

California is an Italy without its art.

Oscar Wilde
Art, California
Quoted in Denver Tribune, Apr. 1882

I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

Oscar Wilde
Personality, Misunderstood, Being Misunderstood
Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.971, Wordsworth Editions

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

Oscar Wilde
Leadership, People, Trying
Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.279, OUP Oxford

Everything popular is wrong.

Oscar Wilde
Spiritual, Political, Popular Song

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

Oscar Wilde
Joy, Taste, Abstinence

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

Oscar Wilde
Education, Pain, Genius
Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.15, Oxford University Press on Demand

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

Oscar Wilde
Purpose, Literature, Mould

Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

Oscar Wilde
Being Yourself
Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.162, Wordsworth Editions

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

Oscar Wilde
Perfection, Laziness, Youth
Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.166, Wordsworth Editions

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

Oscar Wilde
Art, Resemblance Is, Perfection