The proper school to learn art is not life but art

Quote by Oscar Wilde

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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one...

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one...

Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.

Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with...

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with...

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way...

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way...

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Anybody can be good in the country

Anybody can be good in the country

Authority is quite degrading

Authority is quite degrading

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life...

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life...

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

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

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except...

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except...

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success

Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

Love is a check that can be forged that can be cashed. Love is a...

Love is a check that can be forged that can be cashed. Love is a...

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me...

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me...