Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes, Writing Quotes

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie.

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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

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How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!

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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

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There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.

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What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

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Industry is the root of all ugliness.

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Life is too short to learn German

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It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

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

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The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

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LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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Nature is always behind the age

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Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

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I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

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Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'

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It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.

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