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Oscar Wilde Quotes
«It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
deeper, qualities, soon, superficial, The Last Man
«When good Americans die they go to Paris.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
Americans, Paris
«Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
attempt, community, dignity, elevate, organize, organizes, physical, physical force, public opinion
«I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
diaries, diary, sensational, train
«Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
an explanation, beauty, call, dark, explanation, facts, form, genius, higher, high water, indeed, moon, needs, reflection, shell, shells, silver, silvering, springtime, sunlight, The Great, The Moon, water
«Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
artists, conceive, conceive of, fashioned, minded, other than, prejudice, selected, shown
«Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.»
«It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
attractions, city, delightful, disappears, Francisco, odd, San, San Francisco, The Attractions, The San