Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 24

• It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.

  Oscar Wilde

  Development, Rooms

  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.260, Oxford Paperbacks

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• The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Gray, Died

  Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Penny Dreadfuls: Tales of Horror: Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.763, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

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  Flower, Garden, Bird

  Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.151, Harvard University Press

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• What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.

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  Men, Absurd, Cynic

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• Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

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  Men, Laughing, Humanity

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Short Stories”, p.53, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

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  Art, Men, Machines

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Soul of Man under Socialism”, p.24, Oscar Wilde

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• The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

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  Party, Deception, Charm

  "The Picture of Dorian Gray".

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• The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

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  Inspirational, Optimism, Perspective

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• There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

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  Sides, Loveless, Ideal Husband

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1230, GENERAL PRESS

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• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

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  Life, Sad, Beautiful

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde

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• Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

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  Men, Differences, Too Late

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.4, Oscar Wilde

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• Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

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  Men, Suffering, Littles

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “The Happy Prince and Other Tales: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

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  Future, Artist, Past

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

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  Inspirational, Art, Mean

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• Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

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  Being Yourself, Art, Hurt

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• I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.

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  Calling, Half, Firsts

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

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  Should Have, Clothes, Greek

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1670, Delphi Classics

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• It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

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  Science, Artist, Use

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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• Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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  Reading, Culture, Half

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.10

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• It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country

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  Country, Passion, Men

  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.90, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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  Book, Reading, Writing

  Oscar Wilde (1950). “Essays”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel

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  Memories, Somewhere Else, Long

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.17, University of Chicago Press

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• I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

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  Life Worth Living, Astonishing, Worth Living

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.64, Wordsworth Editions

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• Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P

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  Common Sense, Romance, Enemy

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• Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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  Men, Psychology, Rational

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 2 (1891)

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