Oscar Wilde

(68 votes)   While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(67 votes)   Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Oscar Wilde
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(67 votes)   Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(67 votes)   Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(67 votes)   There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(67 votes)   Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(66 votes)   Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(66 votes)   How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(66 votes)   Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(65 votes)   Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(65 votes)   I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in goal is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(65 votes)   If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(65 votes)   It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(64 votes)   Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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