Oscar Wilde quotes - page 12

How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in. (Oscar Wilde)
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. View quote
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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf. View quote
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It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. View quote
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. View quote
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The final revelation is that lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of art. View quote
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To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early or be respectable. View quote
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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. View quote
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Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay. View quote
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography. View quote
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In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the press. (Oscar Wilde)
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. View quote
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Ignorance is like a delicate fruit touch it, and the bloom is gone. View quote
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Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandalled feet, Crept like a frightened girl. View quote
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All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death. View quote
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I love London society I think it has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be. View quote
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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist -- the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar. View quote
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To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies. View quote
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It is sweet to dance to violins When Love and Life are fair To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air. View quote
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All art is quite useless. So is a flower. View quote
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I can believe in anything. Provided it is quite remarkable. (Oscar Wilde)
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. View quote
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There is a fatality about good resolutions - that they are always made too late. View quote
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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. View quote
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One can survive anything these days, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation. View quote
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