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Method Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
- 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…
- While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual,…
- In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice:…
- Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are…
- A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again?…
- Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
- Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions…
- They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the…
- Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities
- What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
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- There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. — Francis Beaumont
- Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. — Jane Addams
- The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. — Joseph Addison
- Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be… — Joseph Addison
- An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. — Konrad Adenauer
- Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. — Ambrose Bierce
- The true method of knowledge is experiment. — William Blake