Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 23

• Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Matter, Able

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1046, Wordsworth Editions

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• It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.

  Oscar Wilde

  Gone, Worship, Compliment

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1079, Delphi Classics

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• Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.

  Oscar Wilde

  Faithful, Belief

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.70, Prestwick House Inc

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• Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dawn, Degrees, Watches

  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.109, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Deceiving Others, Romance, World

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• The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

  Oscar Wilde

  Prayer, Government, Differences

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• America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

  Oscar Wilde

  Discovery, America, Columbus

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

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• She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, America, Secret

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

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• The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Unique, Self

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• Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

  Oscar Wilde

  Answers, Sometimes, Ideal Husband

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.11, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

  Oscar Wilde

  Suicide, Artistic Life, Long

  Oscar Wilde (1962). “Letters”

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• Who, being loved, is poor?

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Positive, Poverty

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.583, Wordsworth Editions

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• The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Useless Things, Excuse

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wisdom, Knowing, People

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

  Oscar Wilde

  Music, Art, Memories

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.88, Wordsworth Editions

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• The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Criticism, Critics

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.176, Wordsworth Editions

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• The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stupidity, Sin

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• Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ambition, Progress, Kingdoms

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• Art persists, it timelessly continues.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Persist

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• I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Art, Reality

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Married

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• Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Wedding

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.37, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Grief, Men

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.105, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Truth

  'A Woman of No Importance' (1893) act 1

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• Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sex, Men, World

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.60, BoD – Books on Demand

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