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Oscar Wilde. Past, Judging, Judgemental. 891 Copy quote. It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart. Oscar Wilde. Beauty, Heart, Personality. 555 Copy quote. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. Oscar Wilde. Love, Life, Best Friend. Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.103, Wordsworth Editions.
The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art. Oscar Wilde. Art, Art Is, Spectators. Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Essential Oscar Wilde”, p.344, Simon and Schuster. Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets. Oscar Wilde.
The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891) The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. Oscar Wilde. Book, Reading, Writing. Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . . Oscar Wilde.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. Oscar Wilde. Love, Life, Best Friend. Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.103, Wordsworth Editions.
Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself. Create yourself. Be yourself your poem. Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.162, Wordsworth Editions.
Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned. Oscar Wilde. Book, Writing, Abandoned. I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. Oscar Wilde. Morning, Writing, Perfection. Oscar Wilde (2007).
Oscar Wilde. Beauty, Fashion, Makeup. It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly. Oscar Wilde. Funny, Beauty, Beautiful. 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891) ch. 17. It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart. Oscar Wilde.
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. Oscar Wilde. Inspirational, Funny, Witty. Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde. If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. Oscar Wilde.
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. Oscar Wilde. Hypocrisy, Wicked, Would Be. 'The Importance of Being Earnest' (1895) act 2. Only the shallow know themselves. Oscar Wilde. Funny, Life, Sarcastic. Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959).
