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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

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

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

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

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

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

Ah! that quite does for me. I...

Ah! that quite does for me. I haven't a word to say... Too much care was taken with our education, I am afraid. To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The proper school to learn ar...

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The bright dawn flooded the r...

The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The terror of society, which ...

The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Civilization is not by means ...

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

I like my food dry. Not sick,...

I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Man is a being with myriad li...

Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Art should never be popular. ...

Art should never be popular.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

It is chiefly, I regret to sa...

It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Nature constantly imitates ar...

Nature constantly imitates art.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

And, as for what is called im...

And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

On the whole, the great succe...

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

In England it is enough for a...

In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

I am afraid that you have bee...

I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

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