Oscar Wilde quotes - page 42

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity. (Oscar Wilde)
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief. View quote
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Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. View quote
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We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone. View quote
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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. View quote
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Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses -- once. View quote
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Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window. View quote
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Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude. View quote
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Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism. View quote
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Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there. View quote
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Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him. (Oscar Wilde)
I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity. View quote
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Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us. View quote
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We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant. View quote
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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. View quote
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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. View quote
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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm We had crossed each other's way But we made no sign, we said no word, We had no word to say. View quote
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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain. View quote
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I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance. View quote
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He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals. View quote
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As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back. (Oscar Wilde)
The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all. View quote
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And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth. View quote
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Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets. View quote
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Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last. View quote
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