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Letter "O" » Oscar Wilde Quotes
«As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Enemies
| Keywords:
as yet, Bernard, Bernard Shaw, Shaw
«Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Temperament
| Keywords:
exquisitely, impressions, requisite, temperament, The Critic
«I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.»
«In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.»
«A chemist on each side will approach the frontier with a bottle»
«It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
apologize, regard to, with regard to
«He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.»
«The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.»
«He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
a good deal, bullied, good deal, out-of-date, valet
«It is sweet to dance to violins/ When Love and Life are fair:/ To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes/ Is delicate and rare:/ But it is not sweet with nimble feet/ To dance upon the air!»
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