Oscar Wilde
Irish writer
Lived from: 1854 - 1900
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: Ireland
Born: 16 october 1854 Died: 30 november 1900
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A modern city is the exact opposite of what everyone wants.
Letter naar Robert Ross (31-5-1897) in Frank Harris - Oscar Wilde, His life and confessions― Oscar Wilde -
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 of great men are absolutely detestable.
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I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.
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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
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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 public never sees anything.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
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Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891)― Oscar Wilde -
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
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The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
― Oscar Wilde
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