Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes, Real Quotes

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

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Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

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Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

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One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

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Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

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Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

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There is only good art and mediocre art.

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More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

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The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

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Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

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