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Letter "O" » Oscar Wilde Quotes
«No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.»
«To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.»
«The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.»
«What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.»
«But I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching»
«The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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at any rate, fortunately, radically, theory of, unsound, upper class
«For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.»
«It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.»
«Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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commons, Great Houses, House of, House of Commons, the House of Commons
«On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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American state, dinners, Her husband, idle, on the whole, partly
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