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Intentions quotes

Oscar Wilde

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“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“A mask tells us more than a face.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“It is through Art, and through Art only, that we can realise our perfection;” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“There is no sin except stupidity.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“action . . . is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use reading it at all.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“language . . . is the parent, and not the child, of thought.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“Life imitates art far more than Art imitates life.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“the public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“it is so easy to convert others. It is so difficult to convert oneself.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“For there is no art where there is no style, and no style where there is no unity, and unity is of the individual.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“All bad art comes from returning to Life and Nature, and elevating them into ideals.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“he to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions

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