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Oscar Wilde Quotes
![My sermon on the meaning of the manna in the wilderness can be adapted to almost any occasion, joyful, or, as in the present case, distressing. [All sigh.] I have preached it at harvest celebrations, christenings, confirmations, on days of humiliation and festal days Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/843/842611/842611.webp "My sermon on the meaning of the manna in the wilderness can be adapted to almost any occasion, joyful, or, as in the present case, distressing. [All sigh.] I have preached it at harvest celebrations, christenings, confirmations, on days of humiliation and festal days Picture Quote #1")
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The Lady’s World’ should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women’s opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
My sermon on the meaning of the manna in the wilderness can be adapted to almost any occasion, joyful, or, as in the present case, distressing. [All sigh.] I have preached it at harvest celebrations, christenings, confirmations, on days of humiliation and festal days. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
Whenever I’m in doubt, I ask myself, ‘What would Jesus do?’ And then I realize, Jesus got crucified, so maybe his decision-making isn’t all that great. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don’t like that. It makes men so very attractive. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one’s worse habits. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don’t they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces . (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
So the swallow flew over the great city, and saw the rich making merry in their beautiful houses, while the beggars were sitting at the gates. He flew into dark lanes, and saw the white faces of starving children looking out listlessly at the black streets (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
It’s beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
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. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)