Oscar Wilde Quotes, Writing Quotes, Artist Quotes

They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

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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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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

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He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

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All art is at once surface and symbol.

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Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

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The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

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He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression.

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Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

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There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

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While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

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All art is quite useless.

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To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

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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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Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

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