Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes, Special Quotes

If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.

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There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.

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I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

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The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.

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Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

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Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

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Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

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I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

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The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.

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You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

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One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

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And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

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Experience is a question of instinct about life.

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A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

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Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it

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