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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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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Subject:
Journalism
Reading
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Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.
Subject:
Hypocrisy
Virtue
Human Nature
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One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance withthe dictates of reason.
Subject:
Mankind
Reason
Quotes from Plays
Source: The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
Subject:
Choice
Poetry
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Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
Subject:
Beauty
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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Subject:
Life
Just
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Subject:
Experience
Mistakes
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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Subject:
Humor
Music
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
Subject:
Death
Opinions
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Subject:
Success
Science
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