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  • Oscar Wilde Quotes   1859
  • Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Passion Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Men Quotes , Vices Quotes
  • I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Art Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Long Quotes , Waiting Quotes