Oscar Wilde Quotes, Punishment Quotes, Artistic Life Quotes

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

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

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Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

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For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

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I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

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Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

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And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

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Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'

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Alas! it is a fearful thing To feel another's guilt!

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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

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I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

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A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.

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Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

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