Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 55

• To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Marriage, Character, Opportunity

  "The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. The Original Four-act Version".

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• Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

  Oscar Wilde

  Greatness, Sorrow, Shallow

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.173, Xist Publishing

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• I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wine, Soul, Sound

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.109, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, Water, Sandwiches

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• There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

  Oscar Wilde

  Misery, Mystery

  Oscar Wilde (2002). “The Happy Prince”, p.12, Electric Book Company

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• Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life Is, Terrible

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Lady Windermere's Fan”, p.61, Oscar Wilde

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• I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Mistake, Thinking

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.198, Penguin

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• We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.

  Oscar Wilde

  Blood, Hands, White

  Oscar Wilde, Merlin Holland (2003). “Collins complete works of Oscar Wilde”, HarperCollins UK

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• I'm not nearly young enough to know everything

  Oscar Wilde

  Enough, Young, Knows

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• ...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

  Oscar Wilde

  Father, Oxford, Two

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.99, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

  Oscar Wilde

  Respect, Dying, Young

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.

  Oscar Wilde

  Doe, Littles, Little Things

  Oscar wilde (1943). “The Happy Prince and Other Tales (Illustrated)”, p.14, LCI

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• I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hitting, Unbearable, Reason

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

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• As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, People, Wicked

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.203, Delphi Classics

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• And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  America, People, Prejudice

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews”, p.28, University of Illinois Press

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• I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.

  Oscar Wilde

  Misunderstood, Being Misunderstood

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• Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Doe, Died

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• The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

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  Thought Provoking, Quality, Human Nature

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1062, Wordsworth Editions

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• He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.

  Oscar Wilde

  Humorous, Vices, Redeeming

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• The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, People, Married

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.93, Wordsworth Editions

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• Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Dream, Passion

  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.158, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Honest, Should

  Oscar Wilde (2002). “An Ideal Husband”, Longman

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• Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Character, Men, Example

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.98

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• Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

  Oscar Wilde

  Education, Art, Real

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.19, University of Chicago Press

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• Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Perfect, Progress

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.47, Wordsworth Editions

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