Oscar Wilde Quotes, Artist Quotes, Government Quotes

People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

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When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.

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Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

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A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

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The weather still continues charming.

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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

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Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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Genius is born-not paid

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

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Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

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Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

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Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect.

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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

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