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Letter "O" » Oscar Wilde Quotes
«The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
lies, Of Man, perfection, the true, True Lies
«I have nothing to declare but my genius.»
«Authority is quite degrading»
«Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.»
«Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.»
«My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's»
«Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it»
«Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
by any means, civilization, corrupt, corrupting, cultured, Their culture, Two Cultures
«All art is quite useless.»
«People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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God
| Keywords:
afterwards, after a fashion, fashion, fashioning, out of fashion, understanding, worship, worshipping
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