Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 52

• What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Lying, Duty

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Oscar Wilde The Dover Reader”, p.447, Courier Dover Publications

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• American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Clever, Past

  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.197, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

  Oscar Wilde

  Flames, People, Common Sense

  "Fictional character: Lord Henry Wotton". "Dorian Gray", www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

  Oscar Wilde

  Meals, Moderation, Enough

  Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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• To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.

  Oscar Wilde

  Eye, Men, Mediocrity

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.136, Wordsworth Editions

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• They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

  Oscar Wilde

  Marriage, Society, Faces

  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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• The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Essence, Growth, Essence Of Life

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.13, Oscar Wilde

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• All art is quite useless.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Art

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

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• I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.

  Oscar Wilde

  Differences, Said, Fascinated

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.109, Prestwick House Inc

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• When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America

  Oscar Wilde

  Paris, America, Dies

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• Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Infancy, Interest

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.51, Wordsworth Editions

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• Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sarcastic, House, Political

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1159, GENERAL PRESS

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• Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Rebel, Revolt

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.56, BoD – Books on Demand

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• And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Problem, Life Is, Ifs

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.102, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Eye, Men, Ears

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.136, Wordsworth Editions

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• It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stones, Offensive, Made

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1056, Wordsworth Editions

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• One should absorb the color of life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Color, Should, Colors Of Life

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.89, Prestwick House Inc

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• Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mother, Achievement, Suffering

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• No one wants to see a play called 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. It's going to be called 'Cocks in Frocks II' or I will find another publisher

  Oscar Wilde

  Play, Fans, Want

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• At six o'clock we cleaned our cells,
  At seven all was still,
  But the sough and swing of a mighty wing
  The prison seemed to fill,
  For the Lord of Death with icy breath
  Had entered in to kill.

  Oscar Wilde

  Swings, Cells, Icy

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.179, Oxford University Press, USA

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• All women are rebels.

  Oscar Wilde

  Rebel

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• It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving Up, Mistake, Men

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• Art never expresses anything but itself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art

  'The Decay of Lying' in 'Intentions' (1891)

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• Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Writing, Reading Literature

  The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

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• The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.

  Oscar Wilde

  Summer, Garden, Light

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.7, First Avenue Editions

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