Irish - Dramatist | October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
Oscar Wilde
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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.
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Only the shallow know themselves.
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
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Why was I born with such contemporaries?
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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