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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 29

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History is only gossip.

History is only gossip.

Gossip

Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

Change, Beautiful, Art

Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.285, OUP Oxford

Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

Passion, Differences, Long

The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 2 (1891)

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

Life, Book, Men

'A Woman of No Importance' (1893) act 1

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Funny, Sarcastic, Discovery

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

Funny, Business, Work

"Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde".

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

Funny, Sarcastic, Political

Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

Music, Art, Ideas

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

Art, Aim Of Life, Sake

Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

Love Life, Giving, Lovely

No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

Matter, Opinion, Should

Letter in 'St James's Gazette' 28 June 1890

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Funny, Witty, Principles

Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.1016, e-artnow

Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

Football, Games, Gentleman

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

Book, Reading, Writing

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.570, Oxford University Press

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

Heart, Broken, Sorrow

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

[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

Men, Confusing, Growth

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1045, Wordsworth Editions

You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

Cigarette Smoke, Perfect, Smoking

'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891) ch. 6

I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this is what I am looking for. It is absolutely necessary for me to find it somewhere.

Art, Tired, Men

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.151, Oxford University Press on Demand

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

Death, Hypocrisy, Dying

The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 3, st. 37 (1898)

Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

Lying, Passion, Men

Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Art, Peril, Beneath The Surface

Oscar Wilde (2010). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.4, Bibliolis Books

Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

Love, Wedding, Hate

Oscar Wilde (2013). “De Profundis”, p.24, Courier Corporation

Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

People, Wish, Philanthropy

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.598, Wordsworth Editions

The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.

World, Oscars, Wilde

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.

Art, Pain, Appreciate

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The critic as artist (low cost). Limited edition”, p.77, Oscar Wilde

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