Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 51

• Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Giving, Criticism

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The critic as artist (low cost). Limited edition”, p.69, Oscar Wilde

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• While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Personality, Firsts

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1689, GENERAL PRESS

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• She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Secret, Sphinx

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Complete Short Stories: The Model Millionaire + The Canterville Ghost + The Happy Prince + The Star-Child + The Fisherman And His Soul + The Selfish Giant + The Nightingale And The Rose + The Sphinx Without A Secret + many more...”, p.203, e-artnow

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• I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

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  Jealous, Doe, I Am Jealous

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

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• It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Space, People, Old Friends

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.44, Prestwick House Inc

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• Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

  Oscar Wilde

  Witty, Inspire, Desire

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.96, First Avenue Editions

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• I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

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  Love, Funny, Life

  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.55, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thinking, Ideas, Different

  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.209, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

  Oscar Wilde

  Snow, Speak, Daisies

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.5, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Style, Ethics

  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.57, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting

  Oscar Wilde

  Acting, Moral, Bad Acting

  Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.142, Harvard University Press

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• Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

  Oscar Wilde

  Looks, Innocence, Escapade

  Oscar Wilde (2009). “The Happy Prince and Other Stories”, p.84, Collector's Library

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• It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ideas, Waiting, Painful

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• Life is a great disappointment.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Disappointment, Life Is

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.114, Mondial

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• That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Writing, Looks

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.41, Wordsworth Editions

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• In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hero, Firsts, Christ

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Ein Granatapfelhaus”, p.103, marixverlag

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• I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Forgiving, Enemy, Morbid

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

  Oscar Wilde

  Integrity, Ethics, Moral

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.999, Wordsworth Editions

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• At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

  Oscar Wilde

  Twilight, Book, Beer

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.239, OUP Oxford

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• Charity creates a multitude of sins.

  Oscar Wilde

  Charity, Sin, Multitudes

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Soul of Man under Socialism”, p.4, Oscar Wilde

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• The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

  Oscar Wilde

  Past, Charm, Curtains

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.83, GENERAL PRESS

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• I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.

  Oscar Wilde

  Exercise, Yesterday, Bed

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• Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Thinking, Importance Of Being Earnest

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• The unread is always better than the unreadable.

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  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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• A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.

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  Ambition, Sacrifice, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.472, OUP Oxford

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