Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes, Essentials Quotes

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

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If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.

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The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.

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I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

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To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!

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For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.

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Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.

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The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

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Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

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The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. 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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I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

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We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.

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Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

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Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

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

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Art persists, it timelessly continues.

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He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

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It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.

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