Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 21

• Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ignorance, Upper Class, Gone

  1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1.

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• It was only in the theatre that I lived

  Oscar Wilde

  Theatre

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.71, GENERAL PRESS

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• There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Self, Luxury, Blame

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 8 (1891)

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• The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Deceived Us, Succeed

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• I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Work, Book

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

  Oscar Wilde

  Depressing, Ends, Prisms

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Marriage, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

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• In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Writing

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• 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)

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• The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Ugly

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• 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

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• There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.819, GENERAL PRESS

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• Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

  Oscar Wilde

  Nature, Men, Tests

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.94, BoD – Books on Demand

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• One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

  Oscar Wilde

  Past, Details, Remember

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.65, Mondial

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• Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Writing, Abandoned

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• Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

  Oscar Wilde

  Rainy Day, Weather, Lasts

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• The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

  Oscar Wilde

  Garden, Religion, Stories

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• The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me

  Oscar Wilde

  Enemy, Faces

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• One's only real life is the life one never leads.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Real, Real Life

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• Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life Is, Should

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “A Woman of No Importance”, p.7, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

  Oscar Wilde

  Gratitude, Grateful, Blessing

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• Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Wise, Philosophy

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.296, GENERAL PRESS

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• Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Imitation, Imitating

  Intentions "The Decay of Lying" (1891)

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• Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Success, Ambition

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.615, Wordsworth Editions

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