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It's not hard to get the idea...

It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

That is the mission of art - ...

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The English mind is always in...

The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Artists reproduce themselves ...

Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Things are in their essence w...

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

If art is to have a special t...

If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Yes, I am a thorough republic...

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

For an artist to marry his mo...

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

As for modern journalism, it ...

As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

So much had been surrendered!...

So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Lord Darlington (LD): I think...

Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Who is that man over there? I...

Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Look at the moon. How strange...

Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Life! Life! Don't let us go t...

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

To elope is cowardly; it is r...

To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Foxhunting... the unspeakable...

Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

By the artificial separation ...

By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

But beauty, real beauty, ends...

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Dullness is the coming of age...

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Perhaps in nearly every joy, ...

Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

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