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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 25

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Only good questions deserve good answers.

Only good questions deserve good answers.

Good Questions, Answers, Deserve

"De Profundis". Book by Oscar Wilde, 1897.

but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself

Men

Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.25, Prestwick House Inc

Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P

Common Sense, Romance, Enemy

To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

Food, Oil, Cooking

1880 Vera, or The Nihilists, act 2.

Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

Common Sense, Imagination, Common

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.32, Wordsworth Editions

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Love, Mistake, Writing

The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 4 (1891). A similar quotation occurs inWilde's play LadyWindermere's Fan, act 3 (1892).

Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.

Art, Doe, Different

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.753, GENERAL PRESS

The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

Heart, Men, Suffering

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.365, GENERAL PRESS

A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.

Stupid, Men, Views

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

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

Tests, Approval, Pleasure

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.56, Wordsworth Editions

Work is the curse of the drinking class. I can resist everything except temptation. Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess. We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars.

Stars, Drinking, Class

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

People, Hearing, Instinct

The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895)

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

Pleasure, Repentance, Console

Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

A mutual misunderstanding.

Love, Mutual, Misunderstanding

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1998). “Complete Shorter Fiction”, p.265, Oxford University Press, USA

Every woman is wrong until she cries.

Women, Tears, Cry

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Humorous, Animal, Men

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

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

Funny, Mistake, Humor

1891 The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch.19.

Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.

Faithful, Belief

Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.70, Prestwick House Inc

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

Motivational, Stupid, Mean

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.691, GENERAL PRESS

I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

Good Friend, World, Remember

Oscar Wilde (1962). “The letters of Oscar Wilde”

To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

Harmony, Be Good, Discord

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.112, Courier Corporation

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

Communication, Should, Conversation

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Critic as Artist (Upon the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything)”, p.57, Mondial

There's no sin but stupidity.

Stupidity, Sin

How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

Soul, Doe, Cures

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Life, Men, Progress

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.65, Wordsworth Editions

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