Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes, Dignity Quotes

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

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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

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I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

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With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

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What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

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Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.

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Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

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Who, being loved, is poor?

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the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

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The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

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It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

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Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.

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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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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

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A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

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one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.

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It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

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