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The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.
Oscar Wilde
He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
Oscar Wilde
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
Oscar Wilde
I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.
Oscar Wilde
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
Oscar Wilde
Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.
Oscar Wilde
In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.
Oscar Wilde
A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.
Oscar Wilde
I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.
Oscar Wilde
I was disappointed in Niagara --most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
Oscar Wilde
It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
Oscar Wilde
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
Oscar Wilde
Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
Oscar Wilde
He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.
Oscar Wilde
I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
Oscar Wilde
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
Oscar Wilde
He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
Oscar Wilde
I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
Oscar Wilde
The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
Oscar Wilde
Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
Oscar Wilde
Life would be dull without them.
Oscar Wilde
Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
Oscar Wilde
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