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Modern Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was…
- There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.
- Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
- Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
- Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
- The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
- The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
- 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.
- Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
- Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the…
- The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
- I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.
- It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against…
- More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.
- 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…
- 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…
- As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival…
- To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.
- It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
- To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
- In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
- There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less…
- I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest…
- 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…
- Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends…
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- Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration… — Margaret Atwood
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' — Norman Ralph Augustine
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing… — Edward Bach
- The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker
- Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what… — Johnny Ball
- Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment,… — J. G. Ballard
- The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home… — Edward Abbey
- Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there… — Dave Barry
- I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. — John Barrymore
- I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered. — Mikhail Baryshnikov