Famous quotes containing the words oscar wilde, oscar, wilde and/or published:
“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)
“But poor devil, poor devil, hes best gone out of a life where he has to ride a rocking horse to find a winner.”
—Anthony PĂ©lissier. Anthony PĂ©lissier. Oscar (Ronald Squire)
“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are ones mistakes.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)
“To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.... A message from the gods should be delivered at once. It is damnably blasphemous to talk about the autumn season and so on. How dare the author or publisher demand a price for doing his duty, the highest and most honourable to which a man can be called?”
—Aleister Crowley (18751947)