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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 27

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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

Sweet, Real, Writing

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.22, Oxford University Press on Demand

Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.

Mistake, Passion, Thinking

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1079, Delphi Classics

Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

Natural, Irritating, Being Natural

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.6, Oxford University Press on Demand

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

Love, Life, Heartbreak

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.12, Wordsworth Editions

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

Names, People, Secrecy

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.171, Oxford University Press on Demand

He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

Wanted, Knows

Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.158, Prestwick House Inc

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

Love, Marriage, Men

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.97, Wordsworth Editions

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

Relationship, Anniversary, Being Happy

"The Importance of Being Earnest". Revised Edition,

Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

Travel, Fall, Home

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

Time, Humor, Tragedy

What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.

Believe, Silly, Love Is

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

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Inspirational, Good Night, Dream

Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.296, OUP Oxford

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

Weakness, Decay, Kind

Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.127

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Men, Insulting, Sometimes

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1035, GENERAL PRESS

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

Mean, Men, Thinking

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.488, Wordsworth Editions

The key to making up Oscar Wilde quotes is to add '~ Oscar Wilde' at the end.

Keys, Add, Oscars

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

Drinking, Glasses, Wish

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.165, Wordsworth Editions

It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.

Asking

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.156, Wordsworth Editions

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

Life, Art, Expression

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.164, GENERAL PRESS

The only thing I can't resist is temptation.

Temptation, I Can

I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member

Witty, Clubs, Accepting

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

Love, Husband, Real

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.226, Oxford Paperbacks

One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

Self Respect, Indifference, Should

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

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

Relationship, Two, People

Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.13, Wordsworth Editions

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

People, House, Society

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.650, Wordsworth Editions

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