Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 28

• There's no sin but stupidity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stupidity, Sin

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• California is an Italy without its art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, California

  Quoted in Denver Tribune, Apr. 1882

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• Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.215, Wordsworth Editions

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• We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

  Oscar Wilde

  Regret, Data, Hype

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• Progress is the realization of utopia.

  Oscar Wilde

  Progress, Realization, Utopia

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.16, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

  Oscar Wilde

  Education, Pain, Genius

  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.15, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mistake, Passion, Thinking

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

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• There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

  Oscar Wilde

  Two, Poetry, Way

  "Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations".

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• Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

  Oscar Wilde

  Weakness, Decay, Kind

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.127

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• And if it feels good... Feel it!

  Oscar Wilde

  Feel Good, Feels, Ifs

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• Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

  Oscar Wilde

  Natural, Irritating, Being Natural

  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.6, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Genius, Talent

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• Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

  Oscar Wilde

  Travel, Fall, Home

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• There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Marriage, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.97, Wordsworth Editions

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• Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

  Oscar Wilde

  Sweet, Real, Writing

  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.22, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Life, Heartbreak

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.12, Wordsworth Editions

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• When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Names, People, Secrecy

  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.171, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Insulting, Sometimes

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1035, GENERAL PRESS

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• After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Drinking, Glasses, Wish

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.165, Wordsworth Editions

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• The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Relationship, Anniversary, Being Happy

  "The Importance of Being Earnest". Revised Edition,

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• Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

  Oscar Wilde

  Regret, Believe, 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.236, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.

  Oscar Wilde

  Believe, Silly, Love Is

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

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• It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.

  Oscar Wilde

  Asking

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.156, Wordsworth Editions

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• The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Humor, Tragedy

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• Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Art, Prejudice

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.702, GENERAL PRESS

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