Oscar Wilde QUOTES

1 " Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men. "

― Frank Harris , Oscar Wilde

3 " But no one will understand Oscar Wilde who for a moment loses sight of the fact that he was a pagan born: as Gautier says, "One for whom the visible world alone exists," endowed with all the Greek sensuousness and love of plastic beauty; a pagan, like Nietzsche and Gautier, wholly out of sympathy with Christianity, one of "the Confraternity of the faithless who "cannot" believe," (His own words in "De Profundis.") to whom a sense of sin and repentance are symptoms of weakness and disease. "

― Frank Harris , Oscar Wilde

5 " men of genius stand apart and are laws unto themselves; showed him, too, that all qualities—singularity of appearance, wit, rudeness even, count doubly in a democracy. "

― Frank Harris , Oscar Wilde

7 " The pleasure men take in denigration of the gifted is one of the puzzles of life "

― Frank Harris , Oscar Wilde