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All art is quite useless.</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a1873/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/11/1873.v5.jpg" alt="Oscar Wilde"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">Oscar Wilde</span> </a> </cite> <ul class="quotes-item__options"> <li> <button class="i-favorite popup-toggle" onclick="event.stopImmediatePropagation(); $('#popup_auth').modal('show');" title="Add to Favorites" qid="01ed55"></button> </li> <li> <button class="i-code share_quote_code" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#popup_embed" qurl="/a1873/01ed55/" qimage="//cdn.citatis.com/img/q/303135/126293.v1.jpg" title="Get code for embedding"> </button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__share" data-id="01ed55" itemtype="quote"> <li> <button class="i-fb" data-url="https://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://citatis.com/a1873/01ed55/" title="Share to Facebook"></button> </li> <li> <button class="i-tw" data-url="https://twitter.com/share?text=The%20only%20excuse%20for%20making%20a%20useless%20thing%20is%20that%20one%20admires%20it%20intensely.%20All%20art%20is%20quite%20useless.&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitatis.com%2Fa1873%2F01ed55%2F" title="Share to Twitter"></button> </li> <li> <button class="i-pntrst" data-url="https://pinterest.com/pin/create/link/?media=//cdn.citatis.com/img/q/303135/126293.v1.jpg&description=The%20only%20excuse%20for%20making%20a%20useless%20thing%20is%20that%20one%20admires%20it%20intensely.%20All%20art%20is%20quite%20useless." title="Share to Pinterest"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__tags"> <li><a href="/topic/2485/">Making</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/7996/">Excuse</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/2848/">Quite</a></li> </ul>  </li> <li class="quotes-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation"> <blockquote itemprop="text"> <a href="/a1780/31db5/">The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a1780/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/14/1780.v4.jpg" alt="Karl Marx"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">Karl Marx</span> </a> </cite> <ul class="quotes-item__options"> <li> <button class="i-favorite popup-toggle" onclick="event.stopImmediatePropagation(); 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It's useless dealing with them.</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a1669/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/5/1669.v7.jpg" alt="Wang Jianlin"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">Wang Jianlin</span> </a> </cite> <ul class="quotes-item__options"> <li> <button class="i-favorite popup-toggle" onclick="event.stopImmediatePropagation(); $('#popup_auth').modal('show');" title="Add to Favorites" qid="31e99"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__share" data-id="31e99" itemtype="quote"> <li> <button class="i-fb" data-url="https://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://citatis.com/a1669/31e99/" title="Share to Facebook"></button> </li> <li> <button class="i-tw" data-url="https://twitter.com/share?text=Foreign%20politicians%20don%27t%20have%20resources%20-%20or%20limited%20resources.%20It%27s%20useless%20dealing%20with%20them.&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitatis.com%2Fa1669%2F31e99%2F" title="Share to Twitter"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__tags"> <li><a href="/topic/2322/">Politicians</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/4352/">Useless</a></li> </ul>  </li> <li class="quotes-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation"> <blockquote itemprop="text"> <a href="/a1873/11f132/">Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a1873/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/11/1873.v5.jpg" alt="Oscar Wilde"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">Oscar Wilde</span> </a> </cite> <ul class="quotes-item__options"> <li> <button class="i-favorite popup-toggle" onclick="event.stopImmediatePropagation(); $('#popup_auth').modal('show');" title="Add to Favorites" qid="11f132"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__share" data-id="11f132" itemtype="quote"> <li> <button class="i-fb" data-url="https://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://citatis.com/a1873/11f132/" title="Share to Facebook"></button> </li> <li> <button class="i-tw" data-url="https://twitter.com/share?text=Good%20resolutions%20are%20useless%20attempts%20to%20interfere%20with%20scientific%20laws.%20Their%20origin%20is%20pure%20vanity.%20Their%20result%20is%20absolutely%20nil.%20They%20give%20us%2C%20now%20and%20then%2C%20some%20of%20those%20luxurious%20sterile%20emotions%20that%20have%20a%20certain%20charm%20for%20the%20weak....%20They%20are%20simply%20cheques%20that%20men%20draw%20on%20a%20bank%20where%20they%20have%20no%20account.&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitatis.com%2Fa1873%2F11f132%2F" title="Share to Twitter"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__tags"> <li><a href="/topic/228/">Laws</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/2552/">Result</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/1790/">Vanity</a></li> </ul>  </li> <li class="quotes-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation"> <blockquote itemprop="text"> <a href="/a18649/076af2/">It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. 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But for my mother, she loves it.</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a2191/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/f/2191.v33.jpg" alt="Jack Dorsey"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">Jack Dorsey</span> </a> </cite> <ul class="quotes-item__options"> <li> <button class="i-favorite popup-toggle" onclick="event.stopImmediatePropagation(); $('#popup_auth').modal('show');" title="Add to Favorites" qid="2866"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__share" data-id="2866" itemtype="quote"> <li> <button class="i-fb" data-url="https://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://citatis.com/a2191/2866/" title="Share to Facebook"></button> </li> <li> <button class="i-tw" data-url="https://twitter.com/share?text=I%20am%20someone%20who%20tweets%20about%20what%20I%20have%20for%20breakfast%2C%20what%20I%20have%20for%20lunch%2C%20what%20I%20have%20for%20dinner%2C%20and%20for%2099.99999%20percent%20of%20the%20world%2C%20it%27s%20useless.%20It%27s%20meaningless.%20But%20for%20my%20mother%2C%20she%20loves%20it.&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitatis.com%2Fa2191%2F2866%2F" title="Share to Twitter"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__tags"> <li><a href="/topic/28/">Mother</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/1309/">Breakfast</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/48404/">Tweets</a></li> </ul>  </li> </ul> <div class="banner--main">  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1539479904694-2'> <script> googletag.cmd.push(function() { var slot; 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