Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 9

• One should always be a little improbable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Littles, Consciousness, Should

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Miscellanies”, p.173, Oscar Wilde

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• The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

  Oscar Wilde

  World, Horrible, Ennui

  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.341, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

  Oscar Wilde

  Witty, Clever, Humorous

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.652, Wordsworth Editions

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• Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sometimes, Unnecessary

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• Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Sarcastic

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• Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

  Oscar Wilde

  Graduation, Knowing, Taught

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• Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Evil, Luck

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

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• But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Passion, Yield

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.29, Prestwick House Inc

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• Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thinking, Errors, Risk

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• Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Age, Consciousness

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Miscellanies”, p.173, Oscar Wilde

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• My wish isn't to mean
  everything to everyone
  but something to someone.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, Wish, My Wish

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• A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

  Oscar Wilde

  Selfish, Flower, Garden

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde

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• They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thinking, Up Early, Bed

  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.315, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Art only begins where Imitation ends.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Imitation, Ends

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.126, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Men, Atheism

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.219, University of Chicago Press

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• Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving, Ignorant, Listening

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.28, Prestwick House Inc

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• Nothing worth learning can ever be taught

  Oscar Wilde

  Taught

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• I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Life, Meaningful

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• History is a lie commonly agreed upon.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying

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• Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

  Oscar Wilde

  Style, Succeed, Obscure

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Emotion

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.1709, e-artnow

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• A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mediocrity

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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• The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Children, Parenting, Fortune Cookie

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.172, Wordsworth Editions

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• We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wisdom, Fun, People

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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