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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 20

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 put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Life, Work, Book

Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.3, Courier Corporation

Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.

Intuition, Strange, Instinct

She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

Clever, Weakness, Charm

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.125, Wordsworth Editions

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Book, Reading, Writing

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

Ignorance, Upper Class, Gone

1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1.

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

Selfish, People, Secret

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde”, p.40, Courier Corporation

What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.

Artist, Soul And Body, Inward

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.170, Oxford University Press on Demand

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

Inspirational, Funny, Food

Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

Art, Deceived Us, Succeed

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

Trust, Betrayal, Integrity

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1491, Delphi Classics

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Happiness, Marriage, Men

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

Obviousness, Ability, Theist

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Inspirational, Life, Death

The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 3 (1891)

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Love, Funny, Sarcastic

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

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

Nature, Men, Tests

Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.94, BoD – Books on Demand

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

Dream, Men, Action

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1466, Delphi Classics

In fact, I am never wrong.

Facts, Knows

"The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People".

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Art, Imitation, Imitating

Intentions "The Decay of Lying" (1891)

The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

Memories, War, Jealous

Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Essential Oscar Wilde”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me

Enemy, Faces

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

Nature, People, Analysis

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

Liars, Giving, Delight

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.305, University of Chicago Press

The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

Garden, Religion, Stories

Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.

Life, Wise, Philosophy

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.296, GENERAL PRESS

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Funny, Humor, Things In Life

The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 1 (1891) See Behan 3; Modern Proverbs 71

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