Quote by Oscar Wilde
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly. – Oscar Wilde

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything. – Oscar Wilde

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Portraits
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People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. – Oscar Wilde

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Anarchy
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. – Charles Darwin

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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding. – Zora Neale Hurston

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good

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friends garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together. – Steve Jobs

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good

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete. – Lao Tzu

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good

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Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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If it is to be, it is up to me. – William H. Johnsen

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