Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 73

• Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Education, Children

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.11, University of Chicago Press

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• Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

  Oscar Wilde

  Brother, Men, Bars

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.213, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Play, Ease

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.133, GENERAL PRESS

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• Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sides, Sincerity, Bores

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.9, OUP Oxford

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• You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost

  Oscar Wilde

  Past, Secret, Doe

  Oscar Wilde (2011). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.126, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Good Art, Delightful

  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.217, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

  Oscar Wilde

  Finishing, Royal, Artistic

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• It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.

  Oscar Wilde

  Future, Past, Miracle

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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• By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Soul And Body, Void

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• Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.

  Oscar Wilde

  Husband, Thinking, Blow

  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.205, OUP Oxford

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• Ah! that quite does for me. I haven't a word to say... Too much care was taken with our education, I am afraid. To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much.

  Oscar Wilde

  Taken, Too Much, Doe

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.146, Penguin

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• I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

  Oscar Wilde

  Teaching, Taken, Enthusiasm

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• I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

  Oscar Wilde

  Intellectual, Listening, Degenerates

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.248, Oxford University Press

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• The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stupid, Race, Mind

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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• That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Men, People

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Essays and Lectures”, p.86, Xist Publishing

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• Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.

  Oscar Wilde

  Notorious, Ifs

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.248, Courier Corporation

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• The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Care, Study

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.921, Wordsworth Editions

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• An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Engagement, May

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.25, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• No gentleman ever has any money.

  Oscar Wilde

  Gentleman

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.159, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dust, Humanity, Lust

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Essential Oscar Wilde”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?

  Oscar Wilde

  Queens, Men, Sea

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.136, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.

  Oscar Wilde

  Russia, Reform, Fool

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.12, Wordsworth Editions

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• Liberty is the chosen
  resort of the artistic
  shopper.

  Oscar Wilde

  Liberty, Artistic, Resorts

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• To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, Men, Enemy

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.23, Wordsworth Editions

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• Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy
  Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.

  Oscar Wilde

  Chrysanthemums, Gilded, Merchandise

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