Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 32

• Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Beautiful, Christian

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1594, Delphi Classics

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• In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Baby, Time, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Wilde Complete Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Woman of No Importance; Salome; The Duchess of Padua; Vera, or the Nihilists; A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane”, p.557, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.

  Oscar Wilde

  Bed, Oscars, Lasts

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• I never change, except in my affections.

  Oscar Wilde

  Affection, Never Change

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.149

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• You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Doe, Dinner

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.703, Wordsworth Editions

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• Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.

  Oscar Wilde

  Doe, Prejudice, Spirit

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• There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Males, Oscars

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• The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

  Oscar Wilde

  Common, Problem, Persons

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• My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Death, Fighting

  "The Picture of Dorian Gray".

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• Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Witty, People, Conformity

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Men, Play

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.810, GENERAL PRESS

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• All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

  Oscar Wilde

  Exercise, Authority, Degrading

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

  Oscar Wilde

  Romance, Romanticism

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Truth, Inspiration

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.197, Wordsworth Editions

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• The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.

  Oscar Wilde

  World, Oscars, Wilde

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• Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Courage, Yield, Temptation

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• If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Laughing, Ifs

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• I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.

  Oscar Wilde

  Language, Ass, Curse

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• How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Lady Windermere's Fan”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• Bigamy ? It's having one wife too much...
  ...Monogamy ? It's the same.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wife, Funny Marriage, Too Much

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• Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, New Year, Holiday

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• One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

  Oscar Wilde

  Relaxation, Should, Unemployed

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1690, GENERAL PRESS

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• The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Family, Happiness

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.31, First Avenue Editions

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• The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Romance, Lessons, Certain

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.163, GENERAL PRESS

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• To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Family, Sarcastic

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895)

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