Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 75

• The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Character, History

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

  Oscar Wilde

  Drama, Play, Literature

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.70, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.

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  Beautiful, Country, Fall

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

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• We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.

  Oscar Wilde

  Appeals, Humour

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.127, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.

  Oscar Wilde

  Accomplishment, Atmosphere, Culture

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1023, GENERAL PRESS

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• She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.

  Oscar Wilde

  Garden, Dancing, Rose

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Nightingale and the Rose”, p.3, Booklassic

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• There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

  Oscar Wilde

  Doubt, Genius, Lasts

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.15, Xist Publishing

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• Divorces are made in heaven.

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  Divorce, Heaven, Made

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sad, Memories, Ambition

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.25, Oxford University Press on Demand

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