Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 65

• The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

  Oscar Wilde

  Family, Wall, Father

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1861, Delphi Classics

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• To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hands, Ordinary, Bags

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.38

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• Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Pain, Glasses

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.37, Mondial

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• It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Deceived

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.51, GENERAL PRESS

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• Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Names, Common Sense

  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.73, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Prism! Where is that baby?

  Oscar Wilde

  Baby, Prisms

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.534, OUP Oxford

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• Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!" "I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing." "That may be, but the muffins are the same!

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Garden, Heaven

  Oscar Wilde (1956). “Annotated The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People with English Grammar Exercises: by Oscar Wilde (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.72, Powell Publications, LLC

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• If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Political, Lasts

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1034, GENERAL PRESS

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• Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

  Oscar Wilde

  Monsters, Unfair, Mets

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• you will always love, and you will always be loved

  Oscar Wilde

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.61, First Avenue Editions

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• You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

  Oscar Wilde

  Night, Thinking, Ideas

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• Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Clothes, House

  Oscar Wilde “The Importance of Being Earnest”, BoD - Books on Demand

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• The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Weather, Sun

  Oscar Wilde (1962). “Letters”

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• My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pain, Writing, Character

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.183, Courier Corporation

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• Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ideas, Intellectual, Development

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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• How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heartless, Cuffs, Muffins

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thinking, Personality, Religion

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.168, First Avenue Editions

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• The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

  Oscar Wilde

  Numbers, Confirmation, Envious

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• I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Eye, Soul

  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.14, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Memories, Artist

  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.130, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Morning, Orchids

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.544, Wordsworth Editions

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• LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.

  Oscar Wilde

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Faces

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.123, Penguin

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• Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stars, Flower, Moon

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.205, Wordsworth Editions

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• How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June… . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that—for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!

  Oscar Wilde

  Eye, June, Giving

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 2 (1891)

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• I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

  Oscar Wilde

  Jealous, Giving, Portraits

  Oscar Wilde (2017). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (English French Edition illustrated): Le Portrait de Dorian Gray (Anglais Français édition illustré)”, p.61, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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