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- I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
- Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.
- I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber…
- 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…
- A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.
- It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
- The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a…
- Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.
- It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
- Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.
- There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with…
- Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real…
- 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…
- Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares,…
- The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
- In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
- Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
- Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was... [makes…
- It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
- Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
- Conscience makes egotists of us all.
- 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…
- Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.
- Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they…
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