Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wildewas an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 October 1854
CityDublin, Ireland
CountryIreland
Fashion is the method by which the fantastic becomes for a moment universal.
Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.
Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.
Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.
For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.
Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.