Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 25

• A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Land, Humanity

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1051, Wordsworth Editions

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• To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Socialism, Great Things

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Reviews”, p.473, Oscar Wilde

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• After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mourning, Tragedy, Sin

  1891 Intentions, 'The Critic as Artist'.

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• The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

  Oscar Wilde

  Soul, Orbit, Finals

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

  Oscar Wilde

  Drama, Genius, Talent

  Quoted in Andre Gide, Letter to his mother, 30 Jan. 1895

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• I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, New Relationship

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

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• Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

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  Communication, Should, Conversation

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Critic as Artist (Upon the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything)”, p.57, Mondial

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• The world belongs to the discontented.

  Oscar Wilde

  World

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• We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

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  Secret, Life Is, Great Experiences

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.125, Mondial

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• Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

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  Beautiful, Education, Children

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• I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

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  Funny, Husband, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.26, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

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  Mistake, Names, Giving

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• I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

  Oscar Wilde

  Quoted in Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions (1916)

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• To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

  Oscar Wilde

  Judging, People, Wonder

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.31, First Avenue Editions

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• It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

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  Fashion, Clothes, Modern

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.816, GENERAL PRESS

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• Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happy Marriage, Surprise, Should

  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.116, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne

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  Drinking, Failing, Reason

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• Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

  Oscar Wilde

  Courage, Betrayal, Kissing

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 1, st. 7 (1898) See Roberts 1

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• One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

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  Men, Judging, Effects

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.165, Diversion Books

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• I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

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  Stupid, Simple, People

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.191, Courier Corporation

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• Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, Breakfast Food

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.15, Oscar Wilde

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• The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

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  Perfect, Personality, Rebellion

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1038, GENERAL PRESS

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• Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

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  Love, Inspirational, Men

  "Two Society Comedies".

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• I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thinking, Complexes, Hard

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.490, Wordsworth Editions

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• He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

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  Wanted, Knows

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.158, Prestwick House Inc

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