5/02/2009

Oscar Wilde Quotes # 1

"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."
Oscar Wilde

"It is through art, and through art only, that we
can realize our perfection; through art and art
only that we can shield ourselves from the
sordid perils of actual existence."
Oscar Wilde

"Consistency is the last refuge of the
unimaginative."
Oscar Wilde

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that
we have to alter it every six months."
Oscar Wilde

"The only excuse for making a useless thing is
that one admires it immensely. All art is
useless."
Oscar Wilde

"I always pass on good advice. It is the only
thing to do with it. It is never of any use to
oneself."
Oscar Wilde

"No great artist ever sees things as they really
are. If he did he would cease to be an artist."
Oscar Wilde

"One should absorb the colour of life, but one
should never remember its details. Details are
always vulgar."
Oscar Wilde

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

"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those
who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

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Those who read the symbol do so at their peril."
Oscar Wilde

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

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

"What a pity that in life we only get our lessons
when they are of no use to us."
Oscar Wilde

"Nowadays people know the price of everything
and the value of nothing."
Oscar Wilde

"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a
great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
Oscar Wilde

"I am the only person in the world I should like
to know thoroughly."
Oscar Wilde

"I have said to you to speak the truth is a
painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much
worse."
Oscar Wilde

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

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