Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes, Soul Quotes

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.

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I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

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I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

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There is no sin except stupidity.

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A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.

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A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

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I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

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It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

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Even things that are true can be proved.

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How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

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The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.

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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

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All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.

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Irony is wasted on the stupid

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I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

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Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.

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I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

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