Oscar Wilde Quotes

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Oscar Wilde

Profession : Poet

Birth : October 16, 1854

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Oscar Wilde

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

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When good Americans die they go to Paris.

Oscar Wilde

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Oscar Wilde

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

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Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

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I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.

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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

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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.

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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

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Why was I born with such contemporaries?

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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

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In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

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