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| QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF Oscar Wilde |
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Quotes By author - Starting with O - Oscar Wilde
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It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
Subject:
Art
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Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace.
Subject:
Morality
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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Subject:
War
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Subject:
Evil
Good
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Subject:
Poetry
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Subject:
Opinions
Human Nature
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Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
Subject:
Art
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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
Subject:
Simplicity
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilised being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
Subject:
Conversation
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Subject:
Reputation
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