Oscar Wilde quotes - page 38

People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards. (Oscar Wilde)
The secret of life is in art. View quote
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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful. View quote
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The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes. View quote
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The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations. View quote
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Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. View quote
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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them. View quote
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One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted. . . View quote
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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action. View quote
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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art. View quote
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The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society. (Oscar Wilde)
Men become old, but they never become good. View quote
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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists. View quote
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Every woman is wrong until she cries. View quote
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Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth. View quote
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Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess. View quote
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The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are. View quote
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No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. . . . View quote
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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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To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing. View quote
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Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid. (Oscar Wilde)
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. View quote
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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor penury is the luxury of the rich. View quote
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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion. View quote
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A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses. View quote
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