Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

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The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

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All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.

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We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

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Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

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The final mystery is oneself.

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No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

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Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.

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If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

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The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves

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A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.

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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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The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

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It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

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I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

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The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.

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Who, being loved, is poor?

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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

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