Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 30

• The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Reality, Rope

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.50, First Avenue Editions

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• The only thing I can't resist is temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Temptation, I Can

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• History is only gossip.

  Oscar Wilde

  Gossip

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• Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

  Oscar Wilde

  Records, Science And Religion, Being True

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.108, Courier Corporation

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• All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Aim Of Life, Sake

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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• Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

  Oscar Wilde

  Music, Art, Ideas

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• Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love Life, Giving, Lovely

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• I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Business, Work

  "Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde".

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• To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Political

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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• Don't feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fuel, Troll, Internet

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• [T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Confusing, Growth

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1045, Wordsworth Editions

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• I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

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  Funny, Witty, Principles

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.1016, e-artnow

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• You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

  Oscar Wilde

  Cigarette Smoke, Perfect, Smoking

  'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891) ch. 6

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• When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Husband, Men

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

  Oscar Wilde

  Important, Forget, Lord

  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.45, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Differences, Long

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 2 (1891)

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• No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

  Oscar Wilde

  Matter, Opinion, Should

  Letter in 'St James's Gazette' 28 June 1890

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• All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Peril, Beneath The Surface

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.4, Bibliolis Books

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• Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Pain, Appreciate

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The critic as artist (low cost). Limited edition”, p.77, Oscar Wilde

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• Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying, Passion, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

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  Heart, Broken, Sorrow

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

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• Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Wish, Philanthropy

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.598, Wordsworth Editions

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• Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Friendship, Witty

  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.175, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.570, Oxford University Press

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• Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Wedding, Hate

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “De Profundis”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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