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No artist is ever morbid. The...

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Imitation is the homage medio...

Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

How does one cure the soul? T...

How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

It's either the wallpaper or ...

It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

For life is terribly deficien...

For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The studio was filled with th...

The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.

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Dear Prince, I must leave you...

Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.

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Oh, how I vainly wished to th...

Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

He had that curious love of g...

He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

What they call their loyalty,...

What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

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To exercise power costs effor...

To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Sympathy with joy intensifies...

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The real weakness of England ...

The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.

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It is only the unimaginative ...

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

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I have invented an invaluable...

I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

There is no such thing as rom...

There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

All art is at once surface an...

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

As it was, we always misunder...

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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Every one of course represent...

Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

All thought is immoral. Its v...

All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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