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Cannot Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- 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.
- In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never…
- Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
- The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very…
- Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic…
- 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…
- Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time…
- Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn;…
- It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it
- But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and…
- There is nothing that art cannot express.
- Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.
- My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love.…
- It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the…
- A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should…
- Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
- I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too…
- If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
- Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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- Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are… — Rajneesh
- There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development… — Lord Acton