Tag: Oscar Wilde
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar Wilde
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By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.
Oscar Wilde
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
Oscar Wilde
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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
Oscar Wilde
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Only the shallow know themselves.
Oscar Wilde
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Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
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