Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 26

• I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Common, Charming

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.90, First Avenue Editions

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• Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sympathy, Grief, Condolences

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.

  Oscar Wilde

  Perfect, Needs, Ideal Husband

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.213, Penguin

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• No crime is vulgar,
  but all vulgarity is crime.

  Oscar Wilde

  Vulgarity Is, Crime, Vulgar

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.114, Courier Corporation

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• There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Grief, Suffering, Sorrow

  Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Feelings, Portraits

  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.7, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

  Oscar Wilde

  Vanity, Sin, Vain

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

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• Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

  Oscar Wilde

  Romance, Ends, Should

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.104, Wordsworth Editions

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• One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Oscar Wilde (2011). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.67, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Change, Beautiful, Art

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.285, OUP Oxford

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• Only good questions deserve good answers.

  Oscar Wilde

  Good Questions, Answers, Deserve

  "De Profundis". Book by Oscar Wilde, 1897.

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• To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

  Oscar Wilde

  Food, Oil, Cooking

  1880 Vera, or The Nihilists, act 2.

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• I can resist everything except temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 1 (1892) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Mae West 19; Wilde 25

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• Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

  Oscar Wilde

  Common Sense, Imagination, Common

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.32, Wordsworth Editions

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• Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Mistake, Writing

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 4 (1891). A similar quotation occurs inWilde's play LadyWindermere's Fan, act 3 (1892).

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• Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Men, Faces

  Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.214, Harvard University Press

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• The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Men, Suffering

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.365, GENERAL PRESS

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• A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stupid, Men, Views

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

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• Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Doe, Different

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.753, GENERAL PRESS

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• Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

  Oscar Wilde

  Drinking, Irish Drinking

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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• but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself

  Oscar Wilde

  Men

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.25, Prestwick House Inc

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• Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once- But it is no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Past, Love Is

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• Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

  Oscar Wilde

  Tests, Approval, Pleasure

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.56, Wordsworth Editions

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• What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pleasure, Repentance, Console

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Mistake, Humor

  1891 The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch.19.

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