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Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
About Author: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
Quotes:I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
All art is quite useless.
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
Being natural is simply a pose.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.
Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only the shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
...my dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.
All art is quite useless.
She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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