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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 12

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Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

Insult, Popularity

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.416, Wordsworth Editions

I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.

Sorrow, Might, Helping

Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.1766, e-artnow

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

Love, Age, World

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

Relationship, Indifferent

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.10, Oxford University Press on Demand

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.

Selfish, Flower, Garden

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

Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

People, Admiration, Should

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.119, Oxford University Press on Demand

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

Self Esteem, World, Antiques

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.305, Oxford University Press on Demand

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Funny, Sarcastic, Fashion

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

Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.

Regret, Fall, Light

Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

Luxury, Let Me, Can Do

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

Doe, I Have Learned, Consequence

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

Beautiful, Husband, Fear

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.113, Mondial

Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

Fashion, Purpose, Dressing Well

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Beauty, Beautiful, Ugly Things

My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

Girl, Sweet, Nice

Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.21, Heinemann

What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.

Men, Reputation, Said

Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.102, Wordsworth Editions

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Success, Knowledge, Funny Thanksgiving

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.819, GENERAL PRESS

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895). The same lines appear, as a dialogue between Lord Illingworth and Mrs. Allonby, in A Woman of No Importance, act 2 (1893).

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Time, 4th Of July, America

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1024, GENERAL PRESS

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Inspirational, Funny, Witty

Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.249, Courier Corporation

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

Funny, Marriage, Sarcastic

The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 4 (1891).Wilde used the same words in A Woman of No Importance (1893).

Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.

Dream, Sight, Enough

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

Doe, World, Maps

"The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde".

The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

Character, Simplicity

Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.380, Wordsworth Editions

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Wisdom, Book, Reading

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