BRILLIANT EPIGRAMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 June 1930, Page 4

BRILLIANT EPIGRAMS

FROM WILDE’S WRITINGS. “In life there is really no great or small, thing. All things are ol equal value and o£ equal size.” “The Trivial in thought and action is charming.”, . “Suffering, curious as it may sounti. is the ineahs by which we exist, because it is the only -means by which we become conscious of existing.” “The gods are strange. . They bring us to ruin through what in ns is good, gentle, humane, loving.” “To be entirely free, and at tinsame time entirely dominated by law. is the eternal paradox of human life that We realise every moment.’ “The little things of life ar-' symbols. We receive our hitler h-mon.-, most easily -through them.” “All homage is delightful to an artist and doubly sweet when youth brings it. Only youth has a right to crown an artist.” “Pleasurd and success may bo rough of grain and common in. til wo. hut sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing to which sorrow does not vibrate, hi terrible, if exquisite, pulsations " “One cannot always keep an -idam: in one’s breast to feed on one, nor rse up every night to sow thorns in the garden of one’s soul.” “Sentimentality is •••mreiy bank L- ’■ i- y >’

“By the displacement of an atom a world may be shaken.” “Love does not traffic in a market place, nor use a huckster’s scales. Its joy. like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive.” “The aim of love is to love.’ What did Wilde feel like when lie had received his sentence? tie has described his emotions po.'gmintly. ■ Remember that the foci to the eyes of the gods and the fool to the eyes of man are very different -One who is entirely'’ignoran'.. of the modes of art in its revelation or the moods of thought in its progress, of the pomp of the Latin line or the richer music of the. vowelled Greek, or Tuscan sculpture, or Elizabethan song may yet. be full of the very sweetest music.” It is of himself that he writes, for, with him of wistfulness. ho adds: "1 was such a one.” ".The supreme vice is shallowness." "Halo blinds people. Love cun read the writing of the remotest, star.” “The fatal errors of life are not due to a. man's being unreasonable. An unreasonable moment may lie one ir.anh Jiiiest moment. They are due Io man's being logical. There is a w iik' 11 i ff<*r e n co. —Oscar Wild <■.