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Admire Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
- As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy,…
- As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
- 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…
- 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…
- What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.
- It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
- We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it
- Bad artists always admire each others work.
- The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
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