620 Quotations by Oscar Wilde
- 41. America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
- 42. An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
- 43. An ordinary man away from home giving advice.
- 44. And beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is ...
- 45. And now, I am dying beyond my means. [Sipping champagne on his deathbed]
- 46. And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,
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- 47. Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
- 48. Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
- 49. Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympat ...
- 50. Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and lit ...
- 51. Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
- 52. Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
- 53. Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes t ...
- 54. Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known.
- 55. Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
- 56. As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really d ...
- 57. As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
- 58. As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They ha ...
- 59. As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
- 60. As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as ...
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