Oscar Wilde Quotes About Giving

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  Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.14, BoD – Books on Demand

• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Being Yourself

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

• By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Ignorance

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.697, GENERAL PRESS

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Boyfriend

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.452, Wordsworth Editions

• The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, College, Men

• Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither I slipped in blood, which is an evil omen; and I heard, I am sure I heard in the air a beating of wings, a beating of giant wings. I cannot tell what they mean .... I am sad to-night. Therefore dance for me. Dance for me, Salomé, I beseech you. If you dance for me you may ask of me what you will, and I will give it you, even unto the half of my kingdom.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, Night, Wings

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.153, Wordsworth Editions

• In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, 4th Of July, America

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1024, GENERAL PRESS

• Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Spiritual

• The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stupid, Silly, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “A Critic in Pall Mall”, p.214, Oscar Wilde

• Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving, Enemy, Mediocrity

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.812, GENERAL PRESS

• To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying, Love You, Heart

• Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Truth, Honesty

  "The Critic as Artist". Book by Oscar Wilde, 1891.

• People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Generosity, Giving

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.217, Oxford University Press on Demand

• In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Strong, Children

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.250, Wordsworth Editions

• The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, War, Jealous

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Essential Oscar Wilde”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

• It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

  Oscar Wilde

  Keeping Secrets, Giving, Guilt

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 8 (1891)

• Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving, Ignorant, Listening

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.28, Prestwick House Inc

• It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.161, Courier Corporation

• Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

  Oscar Wilde

  Disappointment, Giving, Shadow

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.67, Wordsworth Editions

• The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

  Oscar Wilde

  Liars, Giving, Delight

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.305, University of Chicago Press

• It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving Up, Mistake, Men

• Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love Life, Giving, Lovely

• It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Humorous

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.212, Diversion Books

• It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless.

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving, Doubt, Unbiased

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.284, OUP Oxford

• While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving, Romance, Acting

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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