Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 27

• Work is the curse of the drinking class.
  I can resist everything except temptation.
  Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess.
  We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stars, Drinking, Class

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• I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Hearing, Instinct

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895)

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• Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

  Oscar Wilde

  Motivational, Stupid, Mean

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.691, GENERAL PRESS

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• I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Good Friend, World, Remember

  Oscar Wilde (1962). “The letters of Oscar Wilde”

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• To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

  Oscar Wilde

  Youth, Folly, Repeats

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.47, Diversion Books

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• Every woman is wrong until she cries.

  Oscar Wilde

  Women, Tears, Cry

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• To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

  Oscar Wilde

  Harmony, Be Good, Discord

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

  Oscar Wilde

  Personality, Misunderstood, Being Misunderstood

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.971, Wordsworth Editions

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• The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Perfection, Laziness, Youth

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.166, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

  Oscar Wilde

  Morality, Emotion, Immorality

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.437, University of Chicago Press

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• Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

  Oscar Wilde

  Purpose, Literature, Mould

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• Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Resemblance Is, Perfection

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.313, Penguin

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• Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

  Oscar Wilde

  Football, Games, Gentleman

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• A mutual misunderstanding.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Mutual, Misunderstanding

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1998). “Complete Shorter Fiction”, p.265, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Joy, Taste, Abstinence

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• It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

  Oscar Wilde

  Touching, Sacred Things, Sacred

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.64, First Avenue Editions

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• How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

  Oscar Wilde

  Soul, Doe, Cures

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• Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Men, Progress

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.65, Wordsworth Editions

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• He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Eye

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.266, Wordsworth Editions

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• More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

  Oscar Wilde

  Culture, Half, Importance Of Being Earnest

  Oscar Wilde (1980). “Poems”

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• It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

  Oscar Wilde

  Graduation, Witty, Money

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

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• Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Diaries, Chronicles

  "Epigrams & Aphorisms".

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• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

  Oscar Wilde

  Humorous, Animal, Men

  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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• Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

  Oscar Wilde

  Leadership, People, Trying

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.279, OUP Oxford

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• Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.162, Wordsworth Editions

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