Oscar Wilde's Quote - The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art

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The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art

The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral. – Oscar Wilde

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Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are. – Oscar Wilde

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The community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. – Oscar Wilde

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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. – Oscar Wilde

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