Tag: Oscar Wilde
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Oscar Wilde
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It is always the unreadable that occurs.
Oscar Wilde
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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Oscar Wilde
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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar Wilde
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Oscar Wilde
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.
Oscar Wilde
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Oscar Wilde
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Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.
Oscar Wilde
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‘The Lady’s World’ should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women’s opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
Oscar Wilde