Quotes About Basil Hallward

#1. I suppose you have heard the news, Basil? said Lord Henry that evening as Hallward was shown into a little private room at the Bristol

Oscar Wilde

#2. The sense of his own beauty came on him like a revelation. He had never felt it before. Basil Hallward's compliments

Oscar Wilde

#3. Waning. He was perfectly safe there. Nor, indeed, was it the death of Basil Hallward that weighed most upon his mind. It was the living death of his own soul that troubled him. Basil had painted the portrait that had marred his life.

Oscar Wilde

#4. It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.

Oscar Wilde

#5. Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.

Marianne Williamson

#6. But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true poet or painter a seer? Isn't he, actually, the only seer we have
on earth? Most apparently not the scientist, most emphatically not the psychiatrist.

J.D. Salinger

#7. The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#8. You grieve Not that heaven does not exist but That it exists without us

W.S. Merwin

#9. On the anvil of August, the city lay paralyzed, stunned into stupidity by the heat.

Janet Fitch

#10. In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal beauty, and in front of it, some little distance away, was sitting the artist himself, Basil Hallward, whose sudden disappearance some years

Oscar Wilde

#11. Wang-mu was surprised to hear Peter sound so oriental. The American way was to make excuses, to stay and argue.

Orson Scott Card

#12. Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

Oscar Wilde

#13. We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions.

Les Paul

#14. Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.

Margaret Sanger

#15. Basic dictionaries no longer belong on paper; the greatest, the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' has nimbly remade itself in cyberspace, where it has doubled in size and grown more timely and usable than ever.

James Gleick

#16. I can't leave the house without making sure all the beds are made right, so they are neat and fresh when I come in at night.

Jason Donovan

#17. Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be - in other ages, perhaps.

Oscar Wilde

#18. We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

Moliere