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Oscar Wilde Quotes

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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Lo! With a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance - and must I lose a soul's inheritance?  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Over the piano was printed a notice: Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) And down the long and silent street, the dawn, with silver-sandalled feet, crept like a frightened girl  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) On George Bernard Shaw An excellent man: he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Tell me, when you are alone with him Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask?  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses, cried the young Student; but in all my garden there is no red rose  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Why, what a wonderful piece of luck! Here is a red rose! I have never seen any rose like it in all my life. It is so beautiful that I am sure it has a long Latin name  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The more we study art, the less we care for nature. What art really reveals to us is nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary montony, her absolutely unfinished condition  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) It is to do nothing that the elect exist. Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) I have never admitted that I am more than twenty nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The only link between literature and the drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Even the disciple has his uses. He stands behind one's throne, and at the moment of one's triumph whispers in one's ear that, after all, one is immortal  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over dressed is by being always absolutely over educated  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl  (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
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