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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 23

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The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

Flower, Garden, Bird

Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.151, Harvard University Press

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

Sides, Loveless, Ideal Husband

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1230, GENERAL PRESS

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Life, Sad, Beautiful

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde

The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

Inspirational, Optimism, Perspective

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.

Men, Absurd, Cynic

I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.

Calling, Half, Firsts

Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

Reading, Culture, Half

Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.10

Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

Men, Suffering, Littles

Oscar Wilde (2008). “The Happy Prince and Other Tales: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel

Memories, Somewhere Else, Long

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.17, University of Chicago Press

Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

Being Yourself, Art, Hurt

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Inspirational, Art, Mean

To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

Judging, People, Wonder

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.31, First Avenue Editions

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Book, Reading, Writing

Oscar Wilde (1950). “Essays”, Ayer Company Pub

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

Vanity, Sin, Vain

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.65, Mondial

I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

Thinking, Complexes, Hard

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.490, Wordsworth Editions

I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

Life Worth Living, Astonishing, Worth Living

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.64, Wordsworth Editions

To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

Men, Socialism, Great Things

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Reviews”, p.473, Oscar Wilde

Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.

Happy Marriage, Surprise, Should

Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.116, Oxford Paperbacks

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.

Country, Land, Humanity

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1051, Wordsworth Editions

I can resist everything except temptation.

Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

Lady Windermere's Fan act 1 (1892) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Mae West 19; Wilde 25

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

Funny, Husband, Men

Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.26, Bloomsbury Publishing

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.

Mourning, Tragedy, Sin

1891 Intentions, 'The Critic as Artist'.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

Writing, Men, Faces

Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.214, Harvard University Press

Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once- But it is no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.

Heart, Past, Love Is

Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

Beautiful, Education, Children

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