Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 50

• It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fairness, Apologizing, Modern

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.21, Oxford University Press, USA

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• An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ornaments, Oratory

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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• I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ocean, America, Atlantic Ocean

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• America is not a country, it is a world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, America, World

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews”, p.66, University of Illinois Press

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• Fantastic shadows of birds

  Oscar Wilde

  Bird, Shadow, Fantastic

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Picture Of Dorian Gray”, p.6, Oscar Wilde

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• Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

  Oscar Wilde

  Age, Seriousness, Coming Of Age

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.10, Oxford University Press, USA

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• LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Desire, Looks

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.135

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• The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Individual, States

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Miscellaneous Aphorisms: The Soul of Man”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

  Oscar Wilde

  Luxury, God Bless, Can Do

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• There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstand, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous, and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Evil, Imagination

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hate, Men, Use

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.212, Diversion Books

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• To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Class, Easy

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.191, Courier Corporation

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• Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

  Oscar Wilde

  Leadership, House, Guests

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• I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Philosophy, Made

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sacrifice, Thinking, World

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.112, Diversion Books

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• Be yourself, because others are already taken.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Taken, Already Taken

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• George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Brilliant, Grammar

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• Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

  Oscar Wilde

  Drunk, Poetry, Personality

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• We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Secret, Life Is

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

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• The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hero, Class, Criminals

  Oscar Wilde, Bob Blaisdell, Odette Blaisdell (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.155, Courier Corporation

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• Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Dangerous, Dear

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.194, Penguin

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• There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.

  Oscar Wilde

  Easier, Wells, Dies

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.380, Wordsworth Editions

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• For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fashion, Artist, Gourmet

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1844, Delphi Classics

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• Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Philosophy, Civilization

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ducks, Numbers, Overhead

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