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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 22

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Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

Men, Matter, Able

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1046, Wordsworth Editions

Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

Dawn, Degrees, Watches

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.109, Oxford University Press on Demand

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

Men, Psychology, Rational

The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 2 (1891)

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.

Deceiving Others, Romance, World

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

Men, Differences, Too Late

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.4, Oscar Wilde

The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

Art, Unique, Self

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

Art, Useless Things, Excuse

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

Wisdom, Knowing, People

"The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Discovery, America, Columbus

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

The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

Suicide, Artistic Life, Long

Oscar Wilde (1962). “Letters”

Who, being loved, is poor?

Love, Positive, Poverty

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.583, Wordsworth Editions

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

Sex, Men, World

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

The world belongs to the discontented.

World

Art persists, it timelessly continues.

Art, Persist

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Ambition, Progress, Kingdoms

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Artist, Criticism, Critics

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.176, Wordsworth Editions

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Truth

'A Woman of No Importance' (1893) act 1

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

Life, Art, Reality

Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

Funny, Marriage, Wedding

Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.37, Lulu Press, Inc

I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

Art, Grief, Men

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.105, Oxford University Press on Demand

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

Men, Laughing, Humanity

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Short Stories”, p.53, Cosimo, Inc.

It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country

Country, Passion, Men

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.90, Oxford University Press on Demand

The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

Future, Artist, Past

Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.5, Courier Corporation

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

Should Have, Clothes, Greek

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

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

Art, Men, Machines

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Soul of Man under Socialism”, p.24, Oscar Wilde

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