Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
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"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
Oscar Wilde
"If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized."
Oscar Wilde
"Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals."
Oscar Wilde
"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects."
Oscar Wilde
"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling."
Oscar Wilde
"A poet can survive everything but a misprint."
Oscar Wilde
"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
Oscar Wilde
"Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting."
Oscar Wilde
"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."
Oscar Wilde
"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."
Oscar Wilde
"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is."
Oscar Wilde
"The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation."
Oscar Wilde
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
Oscar Wilde
"An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him."
Oscar Wilde
"True friends stab you in the front."
Oscar Wilde
"All art is quite useless."
Oscar Wilde
"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."
Oscar Wilde
"Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination."
Oscar Wilde
"The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates."
Oscar Wilde
"If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame."
Oscar Wilde
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