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Oscar Wilde Quotes
«Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.»
«Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments»
«It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.»
«Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.»
«A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.»
«He paid some attention to the management of his collieries in the Midland counties, excusing himself for this taint of industry on the ground that the one advantage of having coal was that it enabled a gentleman to afford the decency of burning wood on his own hearth.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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«It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.»
«The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.»
«Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.»
«Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.»