Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes

Art should never be popular.

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Millionaire models are rare enough; but model millionaires are rarer still!

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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

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Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

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The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid

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Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

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They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

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Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

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If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.

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With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

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Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

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I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

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I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

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Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.

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With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

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People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.

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