Top oscar Quotes Collection
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.Collection: Oscar
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.Collection: Oscar
There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.Collection: Oscar
I have never given adoration to any body except myself.Collection: Oscar
There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.Collection: Oscar
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.Collection: Oscar
The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.Collection: Oscar
Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.Collection: Oscar
London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.Collection: Oscar
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.Collection: Oscar
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.Collection: Oscar
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.Collection: Oscar
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.Collection: Oscar
Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.Collection: Oscar
Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.Collection: Oscar
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.Collection: Oscar
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.Collection: Oscar
There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.Collection: Oscar
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.Collection: Oscar
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Collection: Oscar
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.Collection: Oscar
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.Collection: Oscar
'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.Collection: Oscar
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.Collection: Oscar
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.Collection: Oscar
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.Collection: Oscar
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.Collection: Oscar
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.Collection: Oscar
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.Collection: Oscar
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.Collection: Oscar
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.Collection: Oscar
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.Collection: Oscar
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.Collection: Oscar
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.Collection: Oscar
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.Collection: Oscar
It is always the unreadable that occurs.Collection: Oscar
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.Collection: Oscar