I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
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The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities.... A fresh mo...
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Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.
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He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
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Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman
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LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life...
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast
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Nobody is worthy to be loved. The fact that God loves man shows us that in the divine order of ideal things it is written that eternal love is to be g...
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I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it...
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Of course to one so modern as I am, `Enfant de mon siècle,’ merely to look at the world will be always lovely. I tremble with pleasure when I think th...
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
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It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artist...
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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Cold were the lips, yet he kissed them. Salt was the honey of the hair, yet he tasted it with a bitter joy. He kissed the closed eyelids, and the wild...
