NOTE: This is a historical typing, so quotes are the basis of this typing conclusion.

Wilde: "Everything popular is wrong."

Wilde: "There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all."

Wilde: "It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection."

Wilde: "Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity."

Wilde: "Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."

Wilde: "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

Wilde: "There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."

Wilde: "No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone."

Wilde: "Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike."

Wilde: "A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde: "There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

Wilde: "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Wilde: "Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."

Wilde: "Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more."

Wilde: "Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals."

Wilde: "All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital."