All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled.It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.For history and analysis of the quote see Common Language. We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.For an analysis see Fashion a Form of Ugliness The Philosophy of Dress, The New-York Tribune, 1885.And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."The Poets' Corner III," The Pall Mall Gazette (May 30, 1887).A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle."A New Calendar," The Pall Mall Gazette (February 17, 1887).Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event."The Children of the Poets," The Pall Mall Gazette (October 14, 1886).A poet can survive everything but a misprint.reprinted in Aristotle at Afternoon Tea:The Rare Oscar Wilde (1991)."The Relation of Dress to Art," The Pall Mall Gazette (February 28, 1885).Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.Review of Herbert Giles translation of the works of Zhuangzi (Chuang Tsu) in The Speaker (8 February 1890).For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.
If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him.A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.Letter to James McNeill Whistler (23 February 1885).Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.As quoted in The New-York Herald (12 August 1883).If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.1.11 The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).1.10 Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894).1.9 A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894).1.6 The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891).1.3 The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888).
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