Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
More Quotes from Oscar Wilde:
None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.Oscar Wilde
The world has been made by fools that men should live in it
Oscar Wilde
A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
Oscar Wilde
The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
Oscar Wilde
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde
Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments
Oscar Wilde
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Art Quotes, Danger & Risk Quotes, Sense & Perception QuotesBased on Keywords: auctioneer, catholicity
It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.
Faye Dunaway
In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects.
Marcus V. Pollio
It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.
James MacArthur