{"author":"Oscar Wilde","author_id":"Oscar+Wilde","total_quotes":868,"quotes":[{"text":"Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.","author":"Oscar Wilde","tags":["marriage"],"id":295,"author_id":"Oscar+Wilde"},{"text":"I hardly think that any Socialist, nowadays, would seriously propose that an inspector should call every morning at each house to see that each citizen rose up and did manual labour for eight hours.","author":"Oscar Wilde","tags":["dictatorship","irony","socialism"],"id":309,"author_id":"Oscar+Wilde"},{"text":"There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.","author":"Oscar Wilde","tags":["oscar-wilde","the-picture-of-dorian-gray"],"id":428,"author_id":"Oscar+Wilde"},{"text":"One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.","author":"Oscar Wilde","tags":["acceptance"],"id":1544,"author_id":"Oscar+Wilde"},{"text":"Albeit nurtured in democracy, And liking best that state republican Where every man is Kinglike and no manIs crowned above his fellows, yet I see,Spite of this modern fret for Liberty, Better the rule of One, whom all obey, Than to let clamorous demagogues betrayOur freedom with the kiss of anarchy.Wherefore I love them not whose hands profane Plant the red flag upon the piled-up street For no right cause, beneath whose ignorant reignArts, Culture, Reverence, Honor, all things fade, Save Treason and the dagger of her trade, Or Murder with his silent bloody fee.","author":"Oscar Wilde","tags":["enlightenment-ideals","liberty","poetry","political-philosophy","rights-of-man"],"id":2736,"author_id":"Oscar+Wilde"},{"text":"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.","author":"Oscar Wilde","tags":["life","love","wealth-of-soul"],"id":3093,"author_id":"Oscar+Wilde"},{"text":"Dorian, Dorian,' she cried, 'before I knew you, acting was the one reality of my life. It was only in the theatre that I lived. I thought that it was all true. I was Rosalind one night and Portia the other. The joy of Beatrice was my joy, and the sorrows of Cordelia were mine also. I believed in everything. The common people who acted with me seemed to me to be godlike. The painted scenes were my world. I knew nothing but shadows, and I thought them real. You came—oh, my beautiful love!— and you freed my soul from prison. You taught me what reality really is. To-night, for the first time in my life, I saw through the hollowness, the sham, the silliness of the empty pageant in which I had always played. To-night, for the first time, I became conscious that the Romeo was hideous, and old, and painted, that the moonlight in the orchard was false, that the scenery was vulgar, and that the words I had to speak were unreal, were not my words, were not what I wanted to say. You had brought me something higher, something of which all art is but a reflection.","author":"Oscar Wilde","tags":["oscar-wilde","the-picture-of-dorian-gray"],"id":4150,"author_id":"Oscar+Wilde"},{"text":"The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of what I mean. We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it.","author":"Oscar Wilde","tags":["art","conformism","criticism","english-literature","humor","individualism","individuality","poetry","poets","public-opinion","true-that"],"id":4667,"author_id":"Oscar+Wilde"},{"text":"Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that.","author":"Oscar Wilde","tags":["oscar-wilde","the-picture-of-dorian-gray"],"id":4731,"author_id":"Oscar+Wilde"},{"text":"It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.","author":"Oscar Wilde","tags":["dorian-gray","worship"],"id":5376,"author_id":"Oscar+Wilde"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":868,"pages":87,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}