Tag: Oscar Wilde
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde
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In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare’s plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.
Oscar Wilde
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Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.
Oscar Wilde
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
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Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde
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Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Oscar Wilde