Oscar Wilde Quotes, Artist Quotes, Men Quotes

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to solve no social problem, and busied itself not about such things, but suffered the individual to develop freely, beautifully, and naturally, and so had great and individual artists, and great, individual men. One might point out how Louis XIV, by creating the modern state, destroyed the individualism of the artist.

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

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To be popular I must be mediocre.

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

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Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

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I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

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The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

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To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

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However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.

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Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

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I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

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True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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

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And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

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Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

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Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.

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