Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 49

• Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.

  Oscar Wilde

  Leadership, Voice, People

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.279, OUP Oxford

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• The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Regret, Mistake, Common Sense

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 3 (1891)

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• Every thing to be true must become a religion.

  Oscar Wilde

  Truth, Being True

  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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• Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.

  Oscar Wilde

  Unspeakable

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• And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Class, Trying, Criminals

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.248, Oxford University Press

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• But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

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  Real, Expression, Intellectual

  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.170, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

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  Men, Intellectual, Trying

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.692, GENERAL PRESS

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• I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel

  Oscar Wilde

  Smart, Hegel

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• The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.

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  Mean, Universe

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• All bad art is the result of good intentions.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Good Intentions, Results

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.133, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.

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  Moon, Looks, Rising

  Oscar Wilde (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.65, OUP Oxford

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• And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

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  Healing, Blood, Hands

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde”, p.24, Oscar Wilde

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• Any place you love is the world to you.

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  Love Is, World, Places You Love

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde”, p.44, Penguin

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• In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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  People, Trying, Breakfast

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.603, Wordsworth Editions

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• A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.

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  Artist, True Artists

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• Well, I can’t help going to see Sibyl play, even if it is only for an act. I get hungry for her presence; and when I think of the wonderful soul that is hidden away in that little ivory body, I am filled with awe." "You can dine with me to-night, Dorian, can’t you?" He shook his head. "To night she is Imogen," he answered, "and tomorrow night she will be Juliet." "When is she Sibyl Vane?" "Never." "I congratulate you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Night, Thinking, Play

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.40, Wordsworth Editions

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• Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.

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  Love, Dorian Grey, Portrait Of Dorian Gray

  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.336, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Everyone should keep someone else's diary.

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  Diaries, Should

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."

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  Art, Book, Carpe Diem

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• Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

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  Fashion, Flower, Clothes

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• God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

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  Heart, Reality, Law

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Ballad of Reading Gaol”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.

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  Nonsense

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• All criticism is a form of autobiography

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  Criticism, Form, Autobiography

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• Nature is always behind the age

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  Age, Behinds

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.223, Oxford University Press

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• Industry is the root of all ugliness.

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  Roots, Industry, Ugliness

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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