Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes, Things In Life Quotes

What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.

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Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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Life is too short to be in a hurry.

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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

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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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The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

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The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

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Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.

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I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

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Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

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Everyone should keep someone else's diary.

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