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«Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.»
«I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming pe»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing.»
«Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.... It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination....»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abnormally, exaggeration, humorous, poetic
«The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Security,
Society,
Stability
| Keywords:
The Complete
«Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
First love
| Keywords:
clumsy, First Love, romance, subtle
«What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.»
«Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Seriousness,
Shallowness
| Keywords:
refuge, seriousness, shallow, shallower, shallowest, shallows
«Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude»
«Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Ideas
| Keywords:
arrested, arrested development, intellectual development, preoccupation, Right or Wrong
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