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Facts Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future…
- Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
- The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.
- There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
- They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else,…
- 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…
- A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is.…
- A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is.…
- On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and…
- The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines…
- Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the…
- Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
- I know. In fact, I am never wrong.
- The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the…
- Truth is independent of facts always.
- It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously
- In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the…
- Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.
- I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live…
- It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that…
- The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are…
- Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of…
- In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the…
- I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults…
- I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal.…
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a… — Rowan Atkinson
- I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I… — David Attenborough
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden