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Letter "O" » Oscar Wilde Quotes
«Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.»
«Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.»
«One should play fairly when one has the winning cards»
«It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.»
«A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?»
«Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life»
«I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky.»
«That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abstract, autobiography, civilized, concrete, delightful, fascinating, record, vague
«I like men who have a future and women who have a past»
«To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Love,
Romance
| Keywords:
romance, romances, The Beginning
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