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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 28

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I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

Hate, People, Meals

Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.19

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

Art, Spontaneity, Prepared

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Money, Thinking, Class

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1047, Wordsworth Editions

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

Science, Artist, Use

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.59, Courier Corporation

Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

People, Doubt, Facts

Oscar Wilde (1962). “Letters”

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

Art, College, Important

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Reviews”, p.602, Oscar Wilde

Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

Regret, Believe, 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.236, Oxford University Press on Demand

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

Lying, Literature, Imaginative

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

Funny, Beautiful, Jealousy

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

Records, Science And Religion, Being True

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.108, Courier Corporation

Don't feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much.

Fuel, Troll, Internet

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Believe, Men, Religion

Epigrams: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young Sebastian Melmoth

The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

Hair, Youth, No Respect

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.167, Wordsworth Editions

Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

Wise, Wine, Rose

Oscar Wilde (2011). “De Profundis”, p.5, Courier Corporation

Even things that are true can be proved.

Ironic, Irony

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

Fashion, People, Ideal Husband

1895 Lord Goring. An Ideal Husband, act 3.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

Attitude, Absurd

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.51, Oxford University Press on Demand

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

Beautiful, Art, 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.14, Oxford University Press on Demand

When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

Funny, Husband, Men

Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Art, Theatre, Acting

Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

Important, Forget, Lord

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.45, Oxford Paperbacks

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

Happiness, Reality, Rope

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.50, First Avenue Editions

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

Marriage, Years, Romance

A Woman of No Importance act 1 (1893)

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

Learning, Men, Gentleman

Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.24, Macmillan

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Funny, Friendship, Witty

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.175, Oxford University Press on Demand

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