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«I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
forms, human being, immediate, regard, share, theatre, The sense, The Theatre
«The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else, if she is plain.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
behave, make love, plain, plainer, plainest, pretty, Pretty Woman, Someone else
«All great ideas are dangerous.»
«A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
temperament, unique, work of art
«All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
Death sentence, for one, just as, on trial, sentenced, sentenced to death, sentences, sentencing, The Trial, Trials
«Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.»
«Work is the curse of the drinking classes.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Work
| Keywords:
classed, classes, class A, curse, cursed with, drinking, working class
«The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.»
«The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
bad, fact, fallen, falling out, Fall of Man, fall over, fall through, fall under, give, habit, into, in a bad way, is not, lately, like, like it, men, quite, quite an, should, The Fall of Man, thinking, womanly
«I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.»
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