Oscar Wilde quotes - page 32

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. (Oscar Wilde)
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead. View quote
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. View quote
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. View quote
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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose. View quote
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. View quote
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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. View quote
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. View quote
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. View quote
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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. View quote
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. (Oscar Wilde)
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. View quote
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad. View quote
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. View quote
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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies. View quote
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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. View quote
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. View quote
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. View quote
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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. View quote
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance. View quote
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. (Oscar Wilde)
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it. View quote
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. View quote
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. View quote
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For what man has sought for is, indeed, neither pain nor pleasure, but simply Life. Man has sought to live intensely, fully, perfectly. When he can do so without exercising restraint on others, or suffering it ever, and his activities are all pleasurable to him, he will be saner, healthier, more civilised, more himself. Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment. View quote
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