Oscar Wilde Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Art Quotes

In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

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It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.

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

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It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

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I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

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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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The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ

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I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

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I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.

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Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee

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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

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The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

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There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

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The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.

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My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.

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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

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Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

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