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Call Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions.…
- He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least…
- 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…
- Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call…
- What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.
- I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
- The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their…
- Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I…
- This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury…
- I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
- Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to…
- My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity,…
- People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
- Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?
- In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work…
- Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world,…
- If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment.…
- What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.
- We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that…
- Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the…
- What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
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