It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Subject:
Art
Quotes from Plays
Work: The Critic as Artist, 1891
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Subject:
Forgiveness
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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Subject:
Writing
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Subject:
Marriage
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Subject:
Life
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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
Subject:
Humor
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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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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Subject:
Appearance & Attitudes
Beauty
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Subject:
Genius
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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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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Subject:
Miscellaneous
Quotes from Plays
Work: The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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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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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Subject:
Drinking
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Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace.
Subject:
Morality
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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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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Subject:
Argument & Debate
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Subject:
America
Work: The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Subject:
Poetry
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Subject:
Just
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It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
Subject:
Art
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