Art Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image “What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Duty Lying Rate Responsibility Revive
In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“Lying is the work of people who are told their truths have no value. The labour of survival is laden with myth and misunderstanding.… — Amber Dawn Copy Share Image
For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because,… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Perhaps one day we will do “everything that we can to protect our people and the timeless values that we stand for.” But today,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to… — Jayson Blair Copy Share Image
Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Lying is universal - we all do it. Therefore, the wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“When do we stop turning over our personal power and responsibility to liars?” — Stephanie Ericsson Copy Share Image
We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
We have to challenge lies. We have to challenge falsehoods and conspiracy theories. If you don't, they fester - unchecked and unchallenged. — Brianna Keilar Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image