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Letter "O" » Oscar Wilde Quotes
«It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produced a false impression.»
«CECILY. When I see a spade I call it a spade./ GWENDOLEN. I am glad to say I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.»
«Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?»
«We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone.»
«The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.»
«There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.»
«One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.»
«Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but molds it to its purpose.»
«Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined.»
«There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.»
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