Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes

The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

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The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

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My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.

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As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

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I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.

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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

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It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

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The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

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Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

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I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the one use of the idle classes of a country. Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

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I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.

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He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

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There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

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One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

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I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

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Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?

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Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.

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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

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