Tag: Oscar Wilde
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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Oscar Wilde
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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.
Oscar Wilde
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Oscar Wilde
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
Oscar Wilde
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Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Oscar Wilde
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde
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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
Oscar Wilde