Oscar Wilde Quotes, Artist Quotes, Personality Quotes

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 personality, which no one should copy.

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Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

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Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.

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Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

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The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

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Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

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The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

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He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

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LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

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The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.

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Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

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All women are rebels.

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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

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Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

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Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

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