Oscar Wilde Work Quotations

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

He is never more present in my work than when no image of him is there.

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

A mans face is his autobiography. A women's face is her work of fiction.

The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

Punctuality is the thief of time

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon

One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

The best way to appreciate your job is to, is here to stay.

Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.