Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes, Men Quotes

That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.

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Life would be dull without them.

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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

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Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

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Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.

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True friends stab you in the front.

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Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

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

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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

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Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

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Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.

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"Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information." "I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand." "Good Heavens! Is marriage so demoralizing as that?" "I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person."

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The only proper intoxication is conversation.

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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

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My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.

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The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

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Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

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When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

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