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Letter "O" » Oscar Wilde Quotes
«A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Conformity,
Individuality,
Selfishness
«He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
dines, every night, every week, opera, rides, row, three times
«Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Popularity
| Keywords:
Bad art, crown, Laurel, laurels, popularity, The Crown
«I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
bride, disappointments, earliest, keenest, Niagara, waterfall, waterfalls
«Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
construction, constructions, criticisms, harsh, kin, possesses, sentences, vulgarity
«Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality»
«Charity creates a multitude of sins.»
«The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
annoying, machine, piano, relation, sister, The Piano, typewriting, typewritten
«The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
Art of, exquisite, idleness, Teach, university
«Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Children
| Keywords:
Boys and Girls, handicraft, handicrafts, mischievous
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