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Oscar Wilde
Irish
Dramatist
Born:
Oct 16
,
1854
Died:
Nov 30
,
1900
Art
Good
Life
Man
Nothing
World
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
Oscar Wilde
Women
Men
Sexes
Compliments
Never
Between
Disarmed
Always
Women Are
Difference
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
Oscar Wilde
World
Believe
Incredible
Those
Classes
Divided
Improbable
Who
Two
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde
Death
Good
Reputation
Down
Live
Nowadays
Everything
Good Reputation
Except
Survive
In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.
Oscar Wilde
Beautiful
Complaint
Our
Those
Statue
Absolutely
Splendid
Faculty
Noble
Powerless
Limbs
Judging
Aesthetic
Dumb
Lips
Modelling
Curves
Us
Help
Gratified
Marble
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Oscar Wilde
Man
Woman
Marriage
World
Nothing
Married
Married Man
Married Woman
About
Like
Devotion
Knows
Anything
Thing
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
Oscar Wilde
Emotions
Astray
Lead
Advantage
Us
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde
World
Own
Books
Immoral
Shame
Calls
Show
When good Americans die they go to Paris.
Oscar Wilde
Good
Paris
Go
American
Die
All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde
Art
Quite
Useless
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
Oscar Wilde
Class
Money
Rich
Nothing
Community
Think
Else
About
More
Only
Than
Poor
Thinks
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Oscar Wilde
Science
Sentiment
Settlement
Never
End
Begin
Romance
Should
I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
Oscar Wilde
Day
Every Day
Live
Every
Find
Up
Blue
China
Harder
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Oscar Wilde
Dramatist
Give
Look
Romance
While
Realism
Ask
Actor
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde
War
Will
Long
Wicked
Looked
Vulgar
Always
Cease
Regarded
Popular
Fascination
I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.
Oscar Wilde
Beautiful
White
Dining
Dining Room
Silk
Shades
Delightful
Absolutely
Effect
Yellow
Done
Different
Room
Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
Oscar Wilde
Ugly
Worthless
Bad
Us
Let Us
Ornament
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Oscar Wilde
Man
Stupid
Thoroughly
Noblest
Stupid Thing
Does
Always
Motives
Whenever
Thing
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Oscar Wilde
Charity
Sins
Creates
Multitude
In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.
Oscar Wilde
Best
First
Drama
Settle
Spirit
Determined
General
Shakespeare
More
Date
Scenery
Costumes
First Thing
Occur
References
Historical
Than
Any
Artist
May
The First Thing
Which
Should
Actual
Play
Thing
Designing
Plays
I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
Oscar Wilde
Day
Simple
School
Every
Would
Would-Be
Given
Attached
Hour
Up
Arts
Golden
Children
Decorative
Teaching
Workshop
Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
Oscar Wilde
Art
Good
People
Good People
Type
Exception
Individual
Deals
Normal
Romantic
Commonplace
Uninteresting
Belonging
'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
Oscar Wilde
Life
Art
Women
World
Made
Men
Organ
Pleasure
Recognized
Magazine
Could
Read
Opinions
Subjects
Modern
Lady
Modern Life
Literature
Should
Expression
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Oscar Wilde
Hope
Memory
Live
Classes
Only
Commercial
Paying
Bills
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Oscar Wilde
Work
Art
Great
You
Think
Dead
Great Work
Understand
Moment
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Oscar Wilde
Woman
Age
About
Calculating
Looks
Accurate
Quite
Should
Ever
Her
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Oscar Wilde
World
Trouble
Sympathy
Would
Would-Be
Less
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