Tag: Oscar Wilde
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
Oscar Wilde
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It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
Oscar Wilde
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Oscar Wilde
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Everything popular is wrong.
Oscar Wilde
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.
Oscar Wilde
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
Oscar Wilde
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar Wilde
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Oscar Wilde
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
Oscar Wilde
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde