To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.
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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate --- not to the artist but to the public. . . .Oscar Wilde
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Oscar Wilde
The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.
Oscar Wilde
All costumes are caricatures. The basis of Art is not the Fancy Ball.
Oscar Wilde
They are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts public attention from their own.
Oscar Wilde
Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
Oscar Wilde
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