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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 17

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

How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

Clever, Mean, Hypocrisy

"The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings".

Each of us has heaven and hell in him.

Heaven, Hell, Heaven And Hell

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.135, Oxford University Press on Demand

We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks

Inspiration, Greek, Achieve

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

Prayer, Correspondence, Ifs

Quoted in Laurence Housman, Echo de Paris (1923)

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

Truth, Believe, Being True

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

I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

Writing, Heart, Forgiving

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.94, Oxford University Press on Demand

If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

Funny, Littles, Importance Of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.58, Bloomsbury Publishing

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

Business, White, Ties

Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.11, Xist Publishing

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

Funny, Husband, Women

The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 15 (1891)

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

Color, Soul, Different

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.319, Penguin

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

Believe, Class, Two

Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.60, BoD – Books on Demand

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Funny, Witty, Sarcasm

'The Critic as Artist' pt. 2 in 'Intentions' (1891)

I don't want to earn a living. I want to live.

Want

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Writing, Media, Differences

Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.

Funny, Drinking, Vacation

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

Self, Tragedy, Denial

Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.185, Courier Corporation

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

Nature, Errors, Growth

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1062, Wordsworth Editions

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

Book, Writing, Artist

Oscar Wilde (2015). “Oscar Wilde The Dover Reader”, p.48, Courier Dover Publications

I'm too old to know everything

Knows

Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Art, Dark, Reflection

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.208, Wordsworth Editions

The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.

Love Is, Aim

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

Philosophy, Bears, Misfortunes Of Others

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Nothing...Except My Genius”, p.46, Penguin UK

The only real people are the people who never existed.

Real, People

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.51, Courier Corporation

A gentleman never offends unintentionally

Gentleman

Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

Dream, Depressing, Reality

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

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