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People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.

People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.

Oscar Wilde
Fashion, People, Understanding
Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.109, Wordsworth Editions

Where there is no love there is no understanding.

Oscar Wilde
Understanding, Extravagance, No Love
Oscar Wilde (2016). “Reviews”, p.596, Oscar Wilde

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

Oscar Wilde
Art, Understanding, Spheres
Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.22, Harvard University Press

The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

Oscar Wilde
Wise, Bird, Understanding
Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.178, GENERAL PRESS

They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

Oscar Wilde
Wise, Understanding, Looks
"The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays".

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