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Told Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
- The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead…
- The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of…
- Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
- Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.
- Miss Prism: ... And you do not seem to reealize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man coverts himself into a permanent public…
- You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You…
- You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
- Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
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