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Quote by Oscar Wilde
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivi

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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Im sure I dont know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldnt like to. – Oscar Wilde

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Hospitality
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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. – Oscar Wilde

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Self
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. – Oscar Wilde

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Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on. – Anthony Powell

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Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change –only to give stability to one beautiful moment. – George Eliot

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Portraits

Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it. – Oliver Cromwell

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I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world. – Samuel Johnson

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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. – Winston Churchill

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I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We werent wealthy, but we were determined to succeed. – Eva Longoria

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Im in the acting business. Thats the ego business. – Betty White

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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known. – Charles Evans Hughes

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