Tag: Oscar Wilde
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
Oscar Wilde
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
Oscar Wilde
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
Oscar Wilde
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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde
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Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.
Oscar Wilde
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Oscar Wilde
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Writing bores me so.
Oscar Wilde
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The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
Oscar Wilde
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Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
Oscar Wilde
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde