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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Science is the record of dead religions. – 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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Men always want to be a womans first love – women like to be a mans last romance. – Oscar Wilde

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The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd. – Noam Chomsky

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The public is wiser than the wisest critic. – George Bancroft

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The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man. – Richard Milhous Nixon

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The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties. – H. L. Mencken

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