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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 11

All Quotes Achievement Acting Affection Age Aging Ambition Anger Appearance Appreciation Arguing Art Atheism Atmosphere Attitude Authority Beauty Beer Being Happy Being Real Being Single Being Yourself Belief Betrayal Blame Break Up Business Censorship Change Chaos Character Charity Children Christ Church College Common Sense Community Conformity Conscience Consciousness Cooking Country Courage Creativity Crime Criticism Critics Culture Curiosity Death Deception Defeat Desire Destiny Dignity Disappointment Doubt Drama Drinking Drunkenness Duty Dying Earth Eating Education Environment Ethics Evil Exercise Failing Failure Faith Falling In Love Family Fashion Fear Feelings Fidelity Fighting Flirting Food Forgiveness Friends Friendship Funny Future Genius Giving Gold Goodness Gossip Graduation Gratitude Greatness Greek Grief Growing Old Growth Happiness Hard Work Harmony Hate Hatred Heart Heartbreak Heaven Hell Hilarious History Home Honesty Hope Horror House Human Nature Humanity Hurt Husband Hypocrisy Ignorance Imagination Imitation Impulse Individualism Individuality Innocence Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Irony Journalism Joy Judgement Judging Kissing Knowledge Language Laughter Leadership Learning Liars Liberty Life Life And Love Listening Literature Live Life Logic Loss Lost Love Love Love Life Luck Lust Lying Madness Mankind Manners Marriage Mask Maturity Mediocrity Memories Moderation Money Moon Morality Morning Motivational Mourning Music Nature Oblivion Opportunity Optimism Pain Passion Past Peace Perception Perfection Personality Perspective Pessimism Philosophy Pleasure Poetry Positive Poverty Prayer Prejudice Progress Purpose Quality Rage Reading Reality Rebellion Regret Rejection Religion Reputation Respect Risk Romance Romantic Love Romanticism Running Sacrifice Sad Sadness Sarcasm School Science Selfishness Silence Simplicity Sin Sincerity Sleep Society Solitude Sorrow Soul Spring Struggle Study Stupidity Style Success Suffering Summer Survival Sympathy Talent Tea Teaching Temptation Terror Theatre Time Tragedy Train Travel Truth Ugliness Understanding Utopia Values Virtue Vision Waiting Wall War Water Weakness Wife Wine Winning Winter Wisdom Wit Work Worship Writing Yoga Youth

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

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

Love, Life, Meaningful

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

Children, Parenting, Fortune Cookie

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

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

Sin, Dorian Grey, Portrait Of Dorian Gray

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.55, Oxford University Press on Demand

One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

Inspirational, Doe, Ideal Husband

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.937, Wordsworth Editions

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Music, Art, Creative

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1043, GENERAL PRESS

The heart was made to be broken.

Moving On, Break Up, Broken Heart

I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

Book, Hundred, Five

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Love, Birthday, Time

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.167, Wordsworth Editions

Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

Writing, Good Intentions, Intention

Oscar Wilde (2014). “Miscellaneous Aphorisms: The Soul of Man”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

Happiness, Cheer, Laughter

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.56, Wordsworth Editions

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Calm, Calmness, Aggravating

You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.

Unseen, Beauty Of Life, Higher

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.131, Penguin

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

History, Duty

1891 Intentions, 'The Critic as Artist'.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Art, Serious Person, Serious Things

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1670, Delphi Classics

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

Beauty, Creeds, Harm

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1594, Delphi Classics

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Funny, Sarcastic, Patriotic

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.144, Wordsworth Editions

I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. It seeks to show new perspectives and other choices. It is a way to help expand and liberate the consciousness; our experiences, understandings, imaginings, options and thereby our lives.

Art, Lying, Men

"The Soul of Man under Socialism". Book by Oscar Wilde, 1891.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

Yield, Law, Sick

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.21, Oxford University Press on Demand

A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

Hypocrite, Men, Doe

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

Leadership, Exercise, Power

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.8, Oxford University Press, USA

The best people to work for are me, myself and I.

People

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

News

Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: +150 Works in 1 eBook”, p.1399, e-artnow

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

Appreciation, Struggle, Appreciate You

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.36, GENERAL PRESS

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Wise, Wisdom, Yoga

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.572, Oxford Paperbacks

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