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Varnishing is the only artist...

Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

There are few things easier t...

There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

I see the moon like a clipped...

I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Nature, which makes nothing d...

Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

It is Nature who makes our ar...

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The Ideal Man should talk to ...

The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

He had uttered a mad wish tha...

He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Taking sides is the beginning...

Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

No publisher should ever expr...

No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

It is absurd to say that the ...

It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The value of an idea has noth...

The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

It is a much cleverer thing t...

It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Shakespeare might have met Ro...

Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The worst slave owners were t...

The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Clergymen and people who use ...

Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Nothing looks so like innocen...

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The essence of thought, as th...

The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The birds did not understand ...

The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Women's styles may change but...

Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

An alliterative prefix served...

An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

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