Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes, Dignity Quotes

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

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It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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A mask tells us more than a face.

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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

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[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

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Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

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Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

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Life is too short to be in a hurry.

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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

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If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

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Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

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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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All art is quite useless.

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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

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Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

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Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

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