Oscar Wilde Quotes, Voice Quotes, Gestures Quotes

Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

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The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.

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For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

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I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

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"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul."

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Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

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Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.

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The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

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She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

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Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

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Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleance me in the great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

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The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

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All art is at once surface and symbol.

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Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

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Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

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