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If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.
Oscar Wilde -
If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.
Oscar Wilde
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I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure.
Oscar Wilde -
Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.
Oscar Wilde -
I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
Oscar Wilde -
The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.
Oscar Wilde -
Every thing to be true must become a religion.
Oscar Wilde -
Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly.
Oscar Wilde
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When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
Oscar Wilde -
The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!
Oscar Wilde -
Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.
Oscar Wilde -
It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.
Oscar Wilde -
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
Oscar Wilde -
He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.
Oscar Wilde
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You are young. No hungry generations tread you down.... The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost...
Oscar Wilde -
A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
Oscar Wilde -
And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.
Oscar Wilde -
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
Oscar Wilde -
It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
Oscar Wilde -
That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
Oscar Wilde
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There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstand, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous, and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own.
Oscar Wilde -
Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.
Oscar Wilde -
Every woman is wrong until she cries.
Oscar Wilde -
What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.
Oscar Wilde