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If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

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To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

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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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Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!

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Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

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By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

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

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Wisdom comes with winters

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The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

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God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

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Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

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A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

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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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Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

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Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.

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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

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If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.

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