All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
- Oscar Wilde - In Art
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
- Oscar Wilde - In Art
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
- Oscar Wilde - In Art
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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
- Oscar Wilde - In Art
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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 - In Education
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
- Oscar Wilde - In Experience
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde - In Experience
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde - In Forgiveness
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
- Oscar Wilde - In Forgiveness
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True friends stab you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde - In Friendship
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Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde - In Love
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
- Oscar Wilde - In Marriage
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Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
- Thornton Wilder - In Marriage
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
- Billy Wilder - In Movies
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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
- Oscar Wilde - In Music
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The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
- Thornton Wilder - In Nature
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
- Oscar Wilde - In Poetry
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
- Oscar Wilde - In Poetry
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
- Oscar Wilde - In Poetry
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
- Oscar Wilde - In Success
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
- Oscar Wilde - In Technology
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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde - In Workplace
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