Oscar Wilde Quotes, Criticism Quotes, Form Quotes

All criticism is a form of autobiography

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Circumstances should never alter principles!

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Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.

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When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349

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The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.

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If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.

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We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

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The sky was pure opal now.

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She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

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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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It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

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Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.

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If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it

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