Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 43

• It is personalities not principles that move the age.

  Oscar Wilde

  Moving, Writing, Personality

  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.217, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Book, Humor

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.76, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

  Oscar Wilde

  Blood, Hands, Liberty

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• One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Errors, Burden

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, Lulu.com

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• And thus we rust Life's iron chain
  Degraded and alone:
  And some men curse, and some men weep,
  And some men make no moan:
  But God's eternal Laws are kind
  And break the heart of stone

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Men, Law

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

  Oscar Wilde

  Determination, Ambition, Growth

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• I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Expression, Play, Piano

  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.217, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Law, Doe, Born

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.98, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Greatness, Men

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 1 (1891)

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• I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Believe, Imagination

  "The Picture of Dorian Gray".

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• There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Evil, Realizing

  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.125, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Nature, Links

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “An Ideal Husband: Second Edition, Revised”, p.85, A&C Black

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• There is nothing that art cannot express.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

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• A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

  Oscar Wilde

  Flirty, Flirting, Long

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.8, Oscar Wilde

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• The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Political, World

  1893 Lord Illingworth. A Woman of No Importance, act 3.

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• And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.

  Oscar Wilde

  Moon, Sky, Yellow

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Salome”, p.26, Broadview Press

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• There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

  Oscar Wilde

  Would Be, About Yourself, Tragic

  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.187, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

  Oscar Wilde

  Philosophy, Fall, Autumn

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Essays and Lectures”, p.73, Xist Publishing

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• Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

  Oscar Wilde

  Slave Owners, People, Being Real

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.256, University of Chicago Press

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• The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

  Oscar Wilde

  Vices, Ruins, Strange

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.58, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Noses

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “An Ideal Husband: Second Edition, Revised”, p.36, A&C Black

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• We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Long, Forgiving

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.114, BoD – Books on Demand

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• One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Muffins, Way, Should

  "The Importance of Being Earnest".

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• Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Ugly, Faults

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.11, Prestwick House Inc

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• I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ideas, Soul, Want

  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.251, Oxford University Press on Demand

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