Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 53

• Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Book

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892)

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• Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Forgiving, Enough

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.826, GENERAL PRESS

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• The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Father, Not Good Enough

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.32, Mondial

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• MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lasts, Mystery, Mood

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.232, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all, for he has gone away." "Well, that is his loss, not mine," answered the Rocket. "I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." "Then you should definitely lecture on Philosophy," said the Dragon-fly.

  Oscar Wilde

  Clever, Philosophy, Loss

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1998). “Complete Shorter Fiction”, p.134, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thinking, Mind, Poor

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.22, Prestwick House Inc

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• Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Misunderstood

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Miscellanies”, p.132, Oscar Wilde

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• Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

  Oscar Wilde

  Law, Useless, Resolution

  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.253, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wise, Men, World

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.826, GENERAL PRESS

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• There is only good art and mediocre art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Mediocre, Good Art

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• Love is easily killed.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love Is

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.101, Wordsworth Editions

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• The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Lying, Hero

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.304, University of Chicago Press

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• The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.

  Oscar Wilde

  Forgiveness, Caves, Sin

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”, p.126, Oscar Wilde

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• I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

  Oscar Wilde

  Ignorance, Natural

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• The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

  Oscar Wilde

  Done, Literature, Singers

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.

  Oscar Wilde

  America, People, World

  Oscar Wilde, Matthew Hofer, Gary Scharnhorst (2010). “Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews”, p.177, University of Illinois Press

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• Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Fashion, Religious

  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.453, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

  Oscar Wilde

  Education, Rogues, Process

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• No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Beauty, Beautiful

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Essays and Lectures: Top Essays”, p.91, 谷月社

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• The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Intelligent, Play, Intelligence

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.815, GENERAL PRESS

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• To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fear, Exercise, Power

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• Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sympathy, Pain, Joy

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.65, Oscar Wilde

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• True love is just like regular love, but with more truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love Is, True Love Is

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• Ah! somehow life is bigger after all
  Than any painted angel could we see
  The God that is within us!

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Angel, Life Is

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.774, Delphi Classics

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• We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone.

  Oscar Wilde

  Able, England, Insult

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1053, Wordsworth Editions

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