Oscar Wilde quotes - page 37

Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks. (Oscar Wilde)
Everyone quoted it, it was full of so many words that they could not understand. View quote
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People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. View quote
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MRS ALLONBY I adore them. The clever people never listen, and the stupid people never talk. HESTER I think the stupid people talk a great deal. MRS ALLONBY Ah, I never listen! View quote
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Your days are your sonnets. View quote
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Each man lived his own life, and paid his own price for living it. View quote
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An Irish gentleman is someone who can play the bagpipes but won't. View quote
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In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. That is an Improvement certainly. but still it is very bad, and wrong, and demoralising. Somebody - was it Burke? View quote
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I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china. View quote
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The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. View quote
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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. (Oscar Wilde)
The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition. View quote
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The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated. View quote
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I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit touch it and the bloom is gone. View quote
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The vilest deeds like poison-weeds Bloom well in prison-air It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers there Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate And the warder is Despair. View quote
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Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. View quote
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The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one. View quote
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When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve. View quote
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But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good. View quote
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Don't give a woman advice one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening. View quote
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You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid. (Oscar Wilde)
The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it. View quote
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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true. View quote
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I can't stand people that do not take food seriously. View quote
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. View quote
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