Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes

Art should never be popular.

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I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

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The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

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How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June… . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that—for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!

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And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.

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

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I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

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What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

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Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

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

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One's only real life is the life one never leads.

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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

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Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

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Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.

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Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.

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It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

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Any place you love is the world to you.

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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

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And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.

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