The following are some of his ideas which some you may simply not agree with and some of you may! Whatever be the reason, all I am doing while reading his book is purely enjoying him.
"But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at all the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are!..."
Maybe, Oscar Wilde was talking about himself when he says "Look at all the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are!..." because frankly to me he is not in the least good looking. His face is on the cover of the book I am reading and it is nothing short of hideous to me. Of course you cannot judge someone's looks by just looking at a cover but you can atleast get a faint idea. Well! Beauty is subjective and all that but nevertheless.
"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."
"And beauty is a form of genius-is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has its divine right of sovereignty...People say sometimes that beauty is only superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as thought is. To m, beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
" To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies."
"...no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men prepresent the triumph of mind over morals."
Ok my friends, this is all for now. Hope these quotes become food for thought! I shall put up some more when I commence my reading of the book again, which is probably tonite, and then you can catch a glimpse of this genius's mind again!
