620 Quotations by Oscar Wilde
- 421. Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil ca ...
- 422. Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beau ...
- 423. That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating t ...
- 424. The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it i ...
- 425. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is ...
- 426. The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communic ...
- 427. The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so ...
- 428. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
- 429. The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
- 430. The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains ...
- 431. The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
- 432. The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
- 433. The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; cultu ...
- 434. The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
- 435. The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
- 436. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is ...
- 437. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatab ...
- 438. The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in ...
- 439. The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
- 440. The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. ...
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