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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 16

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The secret of life is in art.

The secret of life is in art.

Life, Art, Philosophy

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.41, Wordsworth Editions

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

Wise, Women, Future

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.136, GENERAL PRESS

Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither

Soul And Body, Differences, Soul

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.210, Courier Corporation

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

Life, Sympathy, Pain

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.51, First Avenue Editions

The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.

Heart, Broken, Stones

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.108, Oxford University Press on Demand

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Funny, Beauty, Beautiful

'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891) ch. 17

True friends stab you in the front.

Best Friend, Friendship, Funny Love

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

Funny, Friendship, Sarcastic

Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.86, Harvard University Press

The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

Artist, Obvious

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

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Funny, Sarcastic, Independent Women

Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Woman of No Importance”, p.50, Trajectory Inc

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

Caring, People, Care

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.77, Oxford University Press on Demand

Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.

Love You, Passion, Men

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

Wise, Wisdom, Answers

Epigrams: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young Phrases and Philosophies

Everything that is popular is wrong.

Health, Inspire

I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

Past, Amusing

It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .

Beautiful, Ugly, Faces

Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.10, Courier Corporation

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Giving, Enemy, Mediocrity

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.812, GENERAL PRESS

The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

Inspirational, Lying, Men

"The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?

Relationship, Mean, Ifs

Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.187, Courier Corporation

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world. I cannot conceive of any other explanation. I am convinced that there is no other, and that if the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. Pleasure for the beautiful body, but pain for the beautiful soul.

Beautiful, Pain, Men

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1079, Wordsworth Editions

It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

Regret, Loss, Sin

To be in love is to surpass one's self.

Life, Love Is, Self

Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.62, Prestwick House Inc

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

Funny, Men, People

One should always be in love.

Heart

"Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations".

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

Beautiful, Art, Lying

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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