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Oscar Wilde
Everyone is born...
Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.
Source: In Webster's...
To believe is...
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing.
Source: In Webster's...
Caricature is the...
Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.
Source: In Webster's...
Good artists exist...
Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they...
Please do not...
Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
Source: In Impressions of...
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.
Source: In
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.
Source: In...
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...