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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 14

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Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

Life, Simple, Inspire

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.74, Courier Corporation

It is what we fear that happens to us.

Happens

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.33, Wordsworth Editions

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

Hard Work, People, Opinion

Oscar Wilde (2008). “Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde”, p.50, Penguin

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Funny, Sarcastic, Anger

Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

Experience is a question of instinct about life.

Instinct

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.228, Wordsworth Editions

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.

Past, Mourning, Ignorant

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.343, University of Chicago Press

Irony is wasted on the stupid

Stupid, Irony

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Memories, Philosophical, Diaries

Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.34, Prestwick House Inc

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Art, Pain, Book

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.7, Oxford University Press on Demand

The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

Reality, Soul, Terrible

Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

Respect, Mistake, Being Different

She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.

Laughter, Pain, Passion

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.49, GENERAL PRESS

My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect---simply a confession of failures. Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. But I don't want to interrupt you. Go on with your story.

Loyalty, Passion, Boys

Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.48, Prestwick House Inc

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

Architecture, Mankind, Ifs

Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.215, OUP Oxford

One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

Life, Years, Sometimes

Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.46, Wordsworth Editions

What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.

Knows

Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.15

Talent borrows, genius steals!

Genius, Talent, Stealing

When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.

Love, Happy Valentines Day, Waiting

Oscar Wilde (1961). “DE PROFUNDIS”, p.10, VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.

Believe, Past, Sight

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.155, Oxford University Press on Demand

There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

Shallow, Lost, Found

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.21, Wordsworth Editions

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

Art, Unique, People

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.270, University of Chicago Press

Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.

Wine, Pleasure, Champagne

Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

Consistency, Hallmark

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

Heart, Excess, Moderation

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

Failure, Taste, Excuse

Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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