Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

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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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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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LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.

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Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.

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We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

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Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

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When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

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Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.

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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

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I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.

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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.

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What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.

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Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.

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I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

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Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

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A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

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