Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 34

• And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring,
  And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar,
  And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire
  Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.

  Oscar Wilde

  Spring, Moon, Fire

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Poems”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.

  Oscar Wilde

  What Is Love, Important, Pleasure

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• If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Reality, Expression

  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.183, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

  Oscar Wilde

  Too Late, Resolution, Made

  Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.269, Harvard University Press

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• A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mistake, Female, Charming

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• I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thinking, Arguing, Lost

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.12, Wordsworth Editions

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• Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Soul, Unity

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.170, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Years, People

  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.85, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Failure, Character, Suffering

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.496, Wordsworth Editions

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• I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.

  Oscar Wilde

  Adore

  Oscar Wilde, Lady Wilde (1909). “A woman of no importance. An ideal husband”

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• My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Differences, Gossip, Scandal

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.518, Wordsworth Editions

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• It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Men, People

  Oscar Wilde (1977). “The illustrated Oscar Wilde”

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• If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Want, Appeals

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Lady Windermere's Fan”, p.45, Oscar Wilde

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• Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Growing, Youth, Growing Old

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.32, Diversion Books

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• I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

  Oscar Wilde

  Luck, Influence, Weak

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• They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Artist, Doe

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1054, Wordsworth Editions

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• Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Expression, Joy

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.701, GENERAL PRESS

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• All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.

  Oscar Wilde

  Spring, Feet, Rose

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.128, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Healing

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Artist As Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.275, Random House

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• Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Simple, Tea, Pleasure

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.888, Delphi Classics

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• I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Philosophy

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.95, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Relationship, Anniversary

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• The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

  Oscar Wilde

  Photography, Wine, Water

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• She lives the poetry she cannot write.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing

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• A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

  Oscar Wilde

  Age, Bishops, Eighteen

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.204, Courier Corporation

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