Best Oscar Wilde Thoughts
- Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a… Admire
- Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life… Admire
- Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy. All
- Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. Agree
- I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Live
- I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments. All
- There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling,… Admiration
- Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent… Absolutely
- To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to… Alert
- His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be All
- A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another. Cleverer
- The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after… Ardent
- It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done. Best
- 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… Artist
- The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality. Art
- The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every… Dream
- As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely… Absolutely
- One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. English
- I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am… Conformity
- Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips. Emo
- While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual,… Absolutely
- It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners. Absurd
- In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen. All
- Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England… Any
- The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral. Art
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