Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 67

• I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.

  Oscar Wilde

  Summer, Home, Heart

  Oscar Wilde (1961). “DE PROFUNDIS”, p.10, VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS

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• The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to solve no social problem, and busied itself not about such things, but suffered the individual to develop freely, beautifully, and naturally, and so had great and individual artists, and great, individual men. One might point out how Louis XIV, by creating the modern state, destroyed the individualism of the artist.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Men, Creating

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• Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Ignorance, Three

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 1 (1891)

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• Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

  Oscar Wilde

  Intelligent, Found

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Wilde Complete Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Woman of No Importance; Salome; The Duchess of Padua; Vera, or the Nihilists; A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane”, p.41, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sympathy, Pain, Morbid

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• I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

  Oscar Wilde

  World Suffering, Gray, Dorian Grey

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.46, Diversion Books

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• The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

  Oscar Wilde

  Regret, Luxury, Done

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.23, Diversion Books

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• The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hypocrite, Men, Ideas

  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.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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• History is merely gossip

  Oscar Wilde

  Gossip

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.9, Oscar Wilde

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• Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, School, Taste

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.28, University of Chicago Press

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• He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Bullying, Dog

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.25, Wordsworth Editions

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• I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mind, Excuse, Puritan

  Oscar Wilde (1986). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”

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• The only proper intoxication is conversation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Conversation, Intoxication, Drunkenness

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.152, Wordsworth Editions

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• Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

  Oscar Wilde

  Age, Ethics, Morality

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.50, Mondial

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• The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Wine

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.123, Wordsworth Editions

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• America is one long expectoration.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sarcastic, America, Long

  John Stuart Anderson, Oscar Wilde (1982). “The picture of Dorian Gray: a modern theatre adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic novel”

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• Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Married, Bachelors

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Wilde Complete Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Woman of No Importance; Salome; The Duchess of Padua; Vera, or the Nihilists; A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane”, p.322, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sacrifice, Self, Survival

  Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.195, Wordsworth Editions

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• Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ignorant, Speech, Conversation

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.349, University of Chicago Press

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• The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny Relationship, Men, Luck

  Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.306, Oxford Paperbacks

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• And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

  Oscar Wilde

  Cat, Ivory, Yellow

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Poems”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• You know what a woman's curiosity is.

  Oscar Wilde

  Curiosity, Knows

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.171, OUP Oxford

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• I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

  Oscar Wilde

  Switzerland, Theologian, Waiter

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.136, Wordsworth Editions

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• The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

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  Pillars, Culture, Use

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• Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fashion, Moments, Fantastic

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