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Oscar Wilde
Genius is born,...
Genius is born, not paid.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...
He knew the...
He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.
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Find expression for...
Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find an expression for joy, and you will intensify its...
It is through...
It is through Art, and through Art only, that we realize our perfection.
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Every effort that...
Every effort that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
Humanity takes itself...
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, the world...
I sometimes think...
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
He hasn't a...
He hasn't a single redeeming vice.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....
Men become old,...
Men become old, but they never become good.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Fashion is the...
Fashion is the method by which the fantastic becomes for a moment universal.
It is a...
It is a very sad thing nowadays that there is so little useless information.
Man is a...
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of...
Men always want...
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last...
Nothing is good...
Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by...
I don't want...
I don't want money. It is only people who pay their bills who want that, and I never pay...
It is what...
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help...
One can only...
One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased...
Most modern calendars...
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the...
The commonest thing...
The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
Source: In Webster's...
It is only...
It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what...