If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. - Oscar Wilde
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. - Oscar Wilde
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. - 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
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever. - Oscar Wilde
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. - Oscar Wilde
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 This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.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
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth. - Oscar Wilde
In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives. - Oscar Wilde
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
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. - Oscar Wilde
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. - Oscar Wilde
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly. - Oscar Wilde
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. - Oscar Wilde
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. - Oscar Wilde
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