Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 59

• A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Real, Unique

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.270, University of Chicago Press

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• Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity. My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out! The doctors found out that Bunbury could not , that is what I mean—so Bunbury died. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, Aunt, Doctors

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• In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

  Oscar Wilde

  Struggle, Silly, Mind

  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.15, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

  Oscar Wilde

  Reality, Dangerous, Ideals

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.281, e-artnow

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• I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

  Oscar Wilde

  Flower, Mirrors, Oxford

  Oscar Wilde (1962). “Letters”

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• Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix will soar from her nest of fire into the air. We shall lay our hands upon the basilisk, and see the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Fire, Impossible Things

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• I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

  Oscar Wilde

  Party, People, Political

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.290, Wordsworth Editions

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• So lets knock a couple back and make some noise

  Oscar Wilde

  Couple, Drinking, Noise

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• A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Appreciate

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Miscellaneous Aphorisms: The Soul of Man”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.

  Oscar Wilde

  Exercise, Form, Walks

  Quoted in Alvin Redman The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde (1952).

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• And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Doe, Importance Of Being Earnest

  Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.44, Heinemann

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• An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Should

  Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.85, Harvard University Press

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• It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

  Oscar Wilde

  Divorce, Broken, Bondage

  Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (1998). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.33, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Should Have, Action

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.45, Wordsworth Editions

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• We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Broken, Sorrow

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.187, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

  Oscar Wilde

  Faith, Scepticism

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Essential Oscar Wilde”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Oneself, Knows

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.16, Oscar Wilde

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• As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

  Oscar Wilde

  Music, Lying, Liars

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.218, Oxford University Press

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• He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mirrors, Age

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.810, GENERAL PRESS

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• The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.

  Oscar Wilde

  Way

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• She is a peacock in everything but beauty!

  Oscar Wilde

  Sarcastic, Women, Peacock

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.11, Diversion Books

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• Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions." "I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Running, Art

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.17, Lulu Press, Inc

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• She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Passion, Age

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.46, Prestwick House Inc

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• Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Names, Cowardice, Basil

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 1 (1891)

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• The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

  Oscar Wilde

  Eye, Mind, Doe

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