Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 57

• I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

  Oscar Wilde

  Law, Only Love

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “A Woman of No Importance: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.162, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ambition, Poor, Known

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.40, Oscar Wilde

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• No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

  Oscar Wilde

  Theory, Importance, Theory Of 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.111, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

  Oscar Wilde

  Women, Romance, Sense Of Humor

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.51, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

  Oscar Wilde

  San Francisco, Saws, Well Dressed

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• I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sick, Intellectual, Looks

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.411, OUP Oxford

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• What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

  Oscar Wilde

  Loyalty, Imagination, Fidelity

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.46, Xist Publishing

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• Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Men, Hands

  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.293, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

  Oscar Wilde

  Civilization, Progress, Littles

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.257, Oxford University Press

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• Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stupid, Crime, Commit

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.107, Mondial

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• Bad manners make a journalist.

  Oscar Wilde

  Manners, Journalist, Bad Manners

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.141, Wordsworth Editions

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• In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Age, Ugly

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.6, Oscar Wilde

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• Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Dirt, Made

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.1722, e-artnow

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• America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Morning, America

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.7, University of Chicago Press

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• Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

  Oscar Wilde

  Past, Age, Tasks

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• Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hard Work, Refuge, Hard

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• It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]

  Oscar Wilde

  Dying

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• Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter in the grey cloisters at Magdalen, and listen to some flute-like voice singing in Waynfleete's chapel, or lie in the green meadow, among the strange snakespotted fritillaries, and watch the sunburnt noon smite to a finer gold the tower's gilded vanes, or wander up the Christ Church staircase beneath the vaulted ceiling's shadowy fans, or pass through the sculptured gateway of Laud's building in the College of St. John.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying, College, Oxford

  Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.231, Wordsworth Editions

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• Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Unique, Hands

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.937, Wordsworth Editions

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• George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

  Oscar Wilde

  Locks, Reader

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.74, Wordsworth Editions

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• Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

  Oscar Wilde

  Morning, Eye, Night

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.360, GENERAL PRESS

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• Like strange mechanical grotesques,
  Making fantastic arabesques,
  The shadows raced across the blind.

  Oscar Wilde

  Perception, Shadow, Strange

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.161, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Government, Ridiculous

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.282, University of Chicago Press

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• Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Believe, Past, People

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.155, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

  Oscar Wilde

  Self, People, Honor

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.51, Prestwick House Inc

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