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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish Dramatist
Born: Oct 16, 1854
Died: Nov 30, 1900
Art Good Life Man Nothing World
Related authors: Brendan Behan Brian Friel Charles Macklin George Bernard Shaw George Farquhar Hugh Leonard Lady Gregory
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. Oscar Wilde
Imagination Imitates Critical Spirit Creates
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. Oscar Wilde
Before Had Columbus Always Been Discovered Up America Often
I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist. Oscar Wilde
Life Love Man Natural Young Every Think Admire Almost Perfectly Intensely Any Artist Young Man Incident
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. Oscar Wilde
Great Great Deal Become House House Of Commons Deal Does Trying Commons Useful Now Harm
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. Oscar Wilde
Life Good World Nothing Kin Makes Effect Modern Modern Life Produces Whole
The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal. Oscar Wilde
Best Age Spirit Abstract Ideal Itself May Arts Expressed
Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality. Oscar Wilde
You Dangerous Beauty Young Nothing Indeed Strip Weak Must Constantly Vitality Touch More Lifeless He Abstraction Ideal Conception Led Than Any Artist Young Artist Whereas Either
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. Oscar Wilde
Myself Say Has-Been Would Never Had Merely Perhaps Been Discovered America After
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged. Oscar Wilde
People Past Way Only Judged Which Should
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. Oscar Wilde
Music Good People Good Music Bad Talk Listen Plays
Writing bores me so. Oscar Wilde
Me Writing Bores
The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle. Oscar Wilde
Invent Chronicle Artist Function
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