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Known Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, 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.…
- The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the…
- It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one…
- It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
- 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…
- Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
- You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I…
- Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
- Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left…
- 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…
- The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow…
- It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
- Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces…
- You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.
- The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
More Known Quotes
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- He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont… — Isaac Asimov
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- God is best known in not knowing him. — Saint Augustine
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon
- It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do… — Douglas Adams
- I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way… — Tallulah Bankhead
- I can tell you that I'd rather be kissed by my dogs than by some people I've known. — Bob Barker
- On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned. — Christiaan Barnard
- Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking. — Bernard Baruch
- Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been… — Bernard Baruch