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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Oscar Wilde

Work

Art

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

Oscar Wilde

Fiction

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Oscar Wilde

Artist

Public

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde

Optimism

Terror

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Oscar Wilde

Old

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Oscar Wilde

Happiness

Cause

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Oscar Wilde

Society

World

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Oscar Wilde

Emotions

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Oscar Wilde

Imagination

Spirit

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Oscar Wilde

Seriousness