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Oscar Wilde: The sign of...

Oscar Wilde: The sign of...

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

Source: Lecture...

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Oscar Wilde: Life has been...

Oscar Wilde: Life has been...

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

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Oscar Wilde: The longer I...

Oscar Wilde: The longer I...

The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for...

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Oscar Wilde: There is something...

Oscar Wilde: There is something...

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the...

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Oscar Wilde: Musical people are...

Oscar Wilde: Musical people are...

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is...

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Oscar Wilde: The Ideal Man...

Oscar Wilde: The Ideal Man...

The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our...

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Oscar Wilde: I have invented...

Oscar Wilde: I have invented...

I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the...

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Oscar Wilde: I can sympathize...

Oscar Wilde: I can sympathize...

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

Source: The Picture of Dorian...

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Oscar Wilde: All Art is...

Oscar Wilde: All Art is...

All Art is quite useless.

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Preface
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Thornton Wilder: A sense of...

Thornton Wilder: A sense of...

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference . . . and finds them...

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Oscar Wilde: Morality is simply...

Oscar Wilde: Morality is simply...

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

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Oscar Wilde: To be natural...

Oscar Wilde: To be natural...

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

Source: An Ideal...

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Oscar Wilde: The well-bred contradict...

Oscar Wilde: The well-bred contradict...

The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Source:...

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Oscar Wilde: To give an...

Oscar Wilde: To give an...

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but...

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George Farquhar: Says little, thinks...

George Farquhar: Says little, thinks...

Says little, thinks less, and does - nothing at all, faith.

Source: The Beaux'...

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Zora Neale Hurston: Research is formalized...

Zora Neale Hurston: Research is formalized...

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Source:...

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Zora Neale Hurston: There is no...

Zora Neale Hurston: There is no...

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's...

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Zora Neale Hurston: No matter how...

Zora Neale Hurston: No matter how...

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

Source: In ...

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Zora Neale Hurston: I have a...

Zora Neale Hurston: I have a...

I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded-up moment walking in its...

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George Bernard Shaw: No question is...

George Bernard Shaw: No question is...

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

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