Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes, Real Quotes

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

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Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

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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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Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.

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To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

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Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

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A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

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What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

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Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

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There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

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Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

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Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who be in jail Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.

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