Oscar Wilde Quotes, Wise Quotes, Understanding Quotes

They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

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The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

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The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

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The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

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When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.

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Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

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Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

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A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

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It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

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

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The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

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Only love can keep anyone alive.

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Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

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I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

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A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

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By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.

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The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

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There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

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