Quote by Oscar Wilde
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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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. – Oscar Wilde

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I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works. – Oscar Wilde

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Youre not an M.P., youre a gastronomic pimp. – Aneurin Bevan

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I never know when I press these whether I am going to blow up Massachusetts or start the project. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself. – William Hazlitt

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The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant. – Edward Gibbon

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Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed. – Bob Riley

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The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, theyre not the enemy. Theyre the people that hire you. Theyre the people that are going to give you a job. – Rush Limbaugh

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