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Oscar Wilde
Pleasure is Nature's...
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his...
Other people are...
Other people are quite dreadful.
The only possible society is oneself.
Source:...
All art is...
All art is quite useless. So is a flower.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray,...
We live in...
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Source: The...
Sympathy with joy...
Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount...
There is no...
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
My experience is...
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at...
We can forgive...
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless...
There is no...
There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is...
The fact is,...
The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade...
To live is...
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Source:...
A sentimentalist, my...
A sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market...
Art, like Nature,...
Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
All costumes are...
All costumes are caricatures. The basis of Art is not the Fancy Ball.
Source: The...
There is only...
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor...
The youth of...
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for 300 years.
I have nothing...
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
Source: Comment, 3 Jan 1882, at the New...
Agitators are a...
Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community...
Charity creates a...
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism,...
The world has...
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.