Quotes 61 till 80 of 548.
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Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.
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As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.
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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
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Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
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But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself.
The picture of Dorian Gray (1891) -
By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
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Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.
A Woman of No Importance (1893) -
Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
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Culture depends on cookery. For myself, the only immortality I desire is to invent a new sauce.
Vera, or the Nihilists (1883) -
Cynicism is knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
The Canterville Ghost -
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
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Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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