Oscar Wilde

(64 votes)   The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(63 votes)   He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(63 votes)   Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(63 votes)   Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(62 votes)   He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(62 votes)   Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(62 votes)   The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(60 votes)   Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Oscar Wilde
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(60 votes)   Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(60 votes)   The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(59 votes)   Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(59 votes)   Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. They a

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(59 votes)   There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(58 votes)   Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(58 votes)   I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Oscar Wilde
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