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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 24

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Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

Drama, Genius, Talent

Quoted in Andre Gide, Letter to his mother, 30 Jan. 1895

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

Quoted in Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions (1916)

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

Secret, Life Is, Great Experiences

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.125, Mondial

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Funny, Birthday, Friends

1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 3.

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

Youth, Folly, Repeats

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.47, Diversion Books

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Funny, Sarcastic, Breakfast Food

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.15, Oscar Wilde

The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Mistake, Names, Giving

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

Fashion, Clothes, Modern

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.816, GENERAL PRESS

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

Love, Inspirational, Men

"Two Society Comedies".

I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

People, Common, Charming

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.90, First Avenue Editions

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

Vulgarity Is, Crime, Vulgar

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.114, Courier Corporation

I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

Stupid, Simple, People

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.191, Courier Corporation

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

Courage, Betrayal, Kissing

The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 1, st. 7 (1898) See Roberts 1

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

Perfect, Personality, Rebellion

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1038, GENERAL PRESS

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

Artist, Feelings, Portraits

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.7, Oxford University Press on Demand

It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.

Perfect, Needs, Ideal Husband

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.213, Penguin

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

Sympathy, Grief, Condolences

Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

Touching, Sacred Things, Sacred

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.64, First Avenue Editions

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Answers, Sometimes, Ideal Husband

Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.11, Sheba Blake Publishing

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

Life, Happiness, Success

Oscar Wilde (2011). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.67, BoD – Books on Demand

There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

Grief, Suffering, Sorrow

Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.

Beautiful, Ugly

Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

Drinking, Irish Drinking

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.166, Courier Corporation

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

Funny, Sarcastic, Eye

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.266, Wordsworth Editions

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Romance, Ends, Should

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.104, Wordsworth Editions

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