Oscar Wilde Quotes, Authority Quotes

Authority is quite degrading.

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No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.

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Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.

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Everything in moderation, including moderation.

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You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

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A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

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There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

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We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

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The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians.

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Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

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Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.

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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

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It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.

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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

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What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

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Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.

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