Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 74

• You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hate, Riches, Poor

  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.151, Oxford Paperbacks

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• How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!

  Oscar Wilde

  Love You, Long

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.202, Wordsworth Editions

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• And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

  Oscar Wilde

  Winter, Garden, Wind

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.812, e-artnow

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• I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Favour, Importance Of Being Earnest

  Oscar Wilde (1984). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.33, Dramatic Publishing

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• memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Soul, Eating

  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.209, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Requiescat Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. All her bright golden hair Tarnished with rust, She that was young and fair Fallen to dust. Lily-like, white as snow, She hardly knew She was a woman, so Sweetly she grew. Coffin-board, heavy stone, Lie on her breast, I vex my heart alone She is at rest. Peace, Peace, she cannot hear Lyre or sonnet, All my life’s buried here, Heap earth upon it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying, Heart, White

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.5, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Education is an admirable thing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Admirable

  Epigrams: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young Sebastian Melmoth

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• It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

  Oscar Wilde

  Regret, Ignorance, Modern Journalism

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1005, Wordsworth Editions

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• Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Lying, Garden

  Oscar Wilde (1962). “Letters”

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• Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Fashion, Art

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• I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

  Oscar Wilde

  Race, Language

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• To be popular I must be mediocre.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mediocre

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• Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

  Oscar Wilde

  Speak, Should, Know How

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

  Oscar Wilde

  Long, People, Care

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.121, First Avenue Editions

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• There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Passion, Pride

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.169, Bibliolis Books

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• "Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information." "I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand." "Good Heavens! Is marriage so demoralizing as that?" "I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person."

  Oscar Wilde

  Believe, Wine, Heaven

  "The Importance of Being Earnest".

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• Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Flirting, Men

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1343, GENERAL PRESS

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• To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

  Oscar Wilde

  Monday, Week, Enough

  Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.8, Heinemann

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• JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won't want to know Bunbury. ALGERNON Then your wife will. You don't seem to realize, that in married life three is company and two is none. JACK That, my dear young friend, is the theory that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last fifty years. ALGERNON Yes; and that the happy English home has proved in half the time.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Drama, Home

  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.259, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

  Oscar Wilde

  Attitude, Enough, Immoral

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.22, Xist Publishing

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• JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

  Oscar Wilde

  Gentleman, Degrees, Pleasure

  Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.38, Heinemann

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• Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pay, Compliment, Pleasant

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.166, Wordsworth Editions

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• God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

  Oscar Wilde

  Plato, Men, Oxford

  "In Victorian Days and Other Papers" by Sir David Oswald Hunter-Blair, New York: Longmans, (p. 122), 1939.

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• We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Mother, Fire

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.152, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

  Oscar Wilde

  Education, Squares, Class

  Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.16, Heinemann

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