For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn. – Oscar Wilde
There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor. – Oscar Wilde

For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn. – Oscar Wilde
There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor. – Oscar Wilde
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about lifes sores the better. – Oscar Wilde
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. – Oscar Wilde
We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America — as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and were rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence