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Oscar Wilde Quotes

Irish - Dramatist | October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Stars Looking Us Gutter Some

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Art Perfection Through Only Our

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Forgiveness Nothing Always Enemies

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Portrait Artist Feeling Every Sitter

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Progress Ambition Know True More Us

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

Beautiful Aesthetic Help Curves Lips

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

Life Beauty Pain Joy Sympathy Said

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

World Mystery True Invisible Visible

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Truth Man Mask You Person Will

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Good Advice Good Advice Never Pass

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Forgiveness Children Time Parents

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

People Thoughts Someone Opinions

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