Famous quotes containing the words oscar wilde, wilde and/or published:
“All costumes are caricatures. The basis of Art is not the Fancy Ball.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Man cannot bury his meanings so deep in his book, but time and like-minded men will find them. Plato had a secret doctrine, had he? What secret can he conceal from the eyes of Bacon? of Montaigne? of Kant? Therefore, Aristotle said of his works, “They are published and not published.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)