Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 29

• One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

  Oscar Wilde

  Self Respect, Indifference, Should

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

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• Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

  Oscar Wilde

  Relationship, Two, People

  Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.13, Wordsworth Editions

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• A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Good Night, Dream

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.296, OUP Oxford

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• Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Doubt, Facts

  Oscar Wilde (1962). “Letters”

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• Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Art, Expression

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.164, GENERAL PRESS

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• The key to making up Oscar Wilde quotes is to add '~ Oscar Wilde' at the end.

  Oscar Wilde

  Keys, Add, Oscars

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• Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mistake, Character, Past

  Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Penny Dreadfuls: Tales of Horror: Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.719, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hate, People, Meals

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.19

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• Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, House, Society

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.650, Wordsworth Editions

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• I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.488, Wordsworth Editions

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• I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member

  Oscar Wilde

  Witty, Clubs, Accepting

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• It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

  Oscar Wilde

  Humanity, Able, Way

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.979, Wordsworth Editions

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• The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, College, Important

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Reviews”, p.602, Oscar Wilde

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• There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

  Oscar Wilde

  Money, Thinking, Class

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1047, Wordsworth Editions

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• Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Spontaneity, Prepared

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• The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hair, Youth, No Respect

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.167, Wordsworth Editions

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• Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wise, Wine, Rose

  Oscar Wilde (2011). “De Profundis”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fashion, People, Ideal Husband

  1895 Lord Goring. An Ideal Husband, act 3.

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• Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying, Literature, Imaginative

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• There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Husband, Real

  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.226, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Beautiful, Jealousy

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• Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Believe, Men, Religion

  Epigrams: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young Sebastian Melmoth

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• I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Theatre, Acting

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• An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, 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.14, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Attitude, Absurd

  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.51, Oxford University Press on Demand

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