Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 46

• In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Luck, Style, Matter

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.14, Oscar Wilde

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• I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Perfect, Bored

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.566, Wordsworth Editions

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• God and other artists are always a little obscure.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Artist, Littles

  Oscar Wilde, Harford Montgomery Hyde (1982). “The annotated Oscar Wilde: poems, fiction, plays, lectures, essays, and letters”, Clarkson Potter

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• The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Years

  'A Woman of No Importance' (1893) act 1

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• Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Family, Father

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.233, Penguin

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• And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

  Oscar Wilde

  Death, Mean, Dying

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• The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sister, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde, Harford Montgomery Hyde (1982). “The annotated Oscar Wilde”

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• While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving, Romance, Acting

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.37, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

  Oscar Wilde

  Flirty, Husband, Flirting

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.17

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• To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Learning, Growth

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Racks, Old Days

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1047, GENERAL PRESS

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• I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

  Oscar Wilde

  Long, Dresses, Littles

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.391, Wordsworth Editions

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• There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Dignity, Moments

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• I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.

  Oscar Wilde

  Tired, Night, Should

  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.292, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips

  Oscar Wilde

  Kissing, Lips, Walt

  "Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles and Imitations" by John Stokes, Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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• When good Americans die they go to Paris.

  Oscar Wilde

  Paris, Best American, Dies

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 3 (1891). Similar dialogue appears inWilde's A Woman of No Importance (1893) as well. See OliverWendell Holmes 4

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• One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Death, Reality

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• I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Being Real, Shadow

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.112, OUP Oxford

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• When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

  Oscar Wilde

  Age, Immigration, Genius

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• If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Music, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.257, Penguin

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• There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Summer, Stars, Butterfly

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Poems”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression.

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  Expression, Trying, Strange

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.27, GENERAL PRESS

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• If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

  Oscar Wilde

  Would Be, Poverty, Problem

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions

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• I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Genius, Talent

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