Oscar Wilde

(107 votes)   No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(105 votes)   The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(104 votes)   In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(104 votes)   Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(102 votes)   Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(102 votes)   I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(102 votes)   Punctuality is the thief of time. Wilde I never travel without my diary. One should always have Something sensational to read in the train.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(101 votes)   Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(101 votes)   Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music -- his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting -- that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(100 votes)   Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(99 votes)   With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(98 votes)   There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(98 votes)   We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

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1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(98 votes)   Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(97 votes)   The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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