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WD_259/ 2007
(  Satoshi Kinoshita )
| Series: | Works on paper: Drawings 3 | | Medium: | oilstick on paper | | Size (inches): | 25.6 x 17.7 | | Size (mm): | 650 x 450 | | Catalog #: | WD_0259 | | Description: | Signed, date and copyright in pencil on the reverse.
Oscar Wilde Quotes - part 2:
In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
There is no sin except stupidity.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
When good Americans die they go to Paris.
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
-www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/o/oscar_wilde.html
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