Oscar Wilde Quotes About Purpose

• Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

  Oscar Wilde

  God, Cat, Stupidity

• Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fashion, Purpose, Dressing Well

• When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, People, Purpose

  Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.230, Oxford Paperbacks

• Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

  Oscar Wilde

  Purpose, Literature, Mould

• So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ignorance, Self, Mad

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.103, GENERAL PRESS

• The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

  Oscar Wilde

  Believe, People, Rose

  Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.159, Wordsworth Editions

• Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

  Oscar Wilde

  Swimming, Doubt, Purpose

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.166, Courier Corporation

• That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Vision, Purpose, Artistic

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.947, Wordsworth Editions

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