Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes, Father Quotes

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

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When I was young, I was no one. Now, I'm worldwilde.

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At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

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Ah! that quite does for me. I haven't a word to say... Too much care was taken with our education, I am afraid. To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much.

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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

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To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

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Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

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Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

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When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

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It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame.

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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

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Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary.

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For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

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Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

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To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

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I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

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Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

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