Tag: Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde

The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

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

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The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

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There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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There is so much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated it keeps us in touch with ignorance of the community.

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These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

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To love one’s self is the beginning of a life-long romance.

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