Quotes by Wilde, Oscar

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties ma >>

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the cr >>

All art is quite useless. >>

Quotations about Books - Classics

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. >>

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth mu >>

For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are th >>

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

Wilde, Oscar