Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 10

• You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sin, Dorian Grey, Portrait Of Dorian Gray

  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.55, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Long, Secret

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.212, Wordsworth Editions

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• Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

  Oscar Wilde

  Work, Failure, Ambition

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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• When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

  Oscar Wilde

  Broken Heart, Wise, Lost Love

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• One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Doe, Ideal Husband

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.937, Wordsworth Editions

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• Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.

  Oscar Wilde

  Regret, Fall, Light

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• Those whom the gods love grow young.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Birthday, Time

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.167, Wordsworth Editions

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• Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope

  Oscar Wilde

  Hope

  'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' (1898) pt. 3, st. 31

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• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Anger, Reading

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 19 (1891)

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• I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

  Oscar Wilde

  Food, People, Cooking

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• The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Progress, Evolution Of Man

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1065, Wordsworth Editions

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• Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thinking, Wonderful

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• I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Hundred, Five

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• The curves of your lips rewrite history.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Curves, Lips

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.152, Wordsworth Editions

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• The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

  Oscar Wilde

  Yield, Law, Sick

  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.21, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Patriotic

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.144, Wordsworth Editions

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• Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

  Oscar Wilde

  Death, Wine, Mean

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• A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.

  Oscar Wilde

  Good Night, Dream, Punishment

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.296, OUP Oxford

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• The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Break Up

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.119, First Avenue Editions

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• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895). The same lines appear, as a dialogue between Lord Illingworth and Mrs. Allonby, in A Woman of No Importance, act 2 (1893).

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• The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

  Oscar Wilde

  Growth, Development, Human Nature

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1062, Wordsworth Editions

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• The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Way

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• They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Life, Sex

  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.27, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I drink to separate my body from my soul.

  Oscar Wilde

  Soul, Body, Drink

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• The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Love Is

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “SALOM: A TRAGEDY IN ONE ACT”, p.111, ReadHowYouWant.com

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