Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 70

• Nature constantly imitates art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art

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• To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

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  Self, Ruined, Poetry Is

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.47, GENERAL PRESS

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• Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.

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  Humor, Law, Clients

  Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.143, Wordsworth Editions

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• Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

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  Art, Class, Criminals

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.223, Courier Corporation

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• As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.

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  Mad, Curiosity, Looks

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.36, Wordsworth Editions

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• My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

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  Moon, Saint, Worship

  Oscar Wilde (2003). “Salome”, p.172, Editions du héron

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• Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break
  And peace of pardon win!
  How else may man make straight his plan
  And cleanse his soul from Sin?
  How else but through a broken heart
  May Lord Christ enter in?

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  Heart, Winning, Men

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 5, st. 14 (1898)

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• And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

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  Winning, Games, Play

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.379, GENERAL PRESS

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• Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

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  Passion, Men, Legacy

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Miscellaneous Aphorisms: The Soul of Man”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

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  Men, Law, Coward

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.817, GENERAL PRESS

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• People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

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  Lying, People, Enemy

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.197, Wordsworth Editions

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• Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

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  Real, Lying, Imagination

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• The proper school to learn art is not life but art

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, School, Art Is

  Intentions "The Decay of Lying" (1891)

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• Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

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  Disappointment, Fall, Taken

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

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• I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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  Character, Funny Relationship, Men

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 1 (1891)

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• I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

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  Life, World, Modern

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “An Ideal Husband: Second Edition, Revised”, p.30, A&C Black

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• In married life three is company and two none.

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  Two, Three, Importance Of Being Earnest

  'The Importance of Being Earnest' (1895) act 1

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• It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

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

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• The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

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  Business, Marketing, Too Much

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Essays and Lectures: Top Essays”, p.75, 谷月社

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• Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

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  Writing, Fiction, Painful

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.740, GENERAL PRESS

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• There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

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  Mean, People, Tragedy

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.40, Wordsworth Editions

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• America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Europe, America, Forgiven

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.63, University of Chicago Press

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• Millionaire models are rare enough; but model millionaires are rarer still!

  Oscar Wilde

  Enough, Millionaire, Models

  "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories".

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• The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

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  Shadow, Dawn, Rooms

  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.66, Oxford University Press on Demand

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