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Oscar Wilde
To many, no...
To many, no doubt, he will seem to be somewhat blatant and bumptious, but we prefer to regard him as being simply...
Crying is the...
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
Source: Duchess of...
It was a...
It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as...
One is absolutely...
One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good...
The amount of...
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply...
I know, of...
I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the...
The great events...
The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become...
On mechanical slavery,...
On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
The State is...
The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
Either that wallpaper...
Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.
Source: Attributed last words, as he lay dying...
The mere mechanical...
The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be...
From the point...
From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life,...
The past is...
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the...
The only thing...
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate...
The man who...
The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
Source:...
Education is an...
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
There is no...
There is no sin except stupidity.
Source: Gilbert, in The Critic as Artist, pt. 2...
No work of...
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
I have found...
I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful...
The ugly and...
The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they...