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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 30

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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is

I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

Believe, Essence, Romance

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.250, Penguin

What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

Art, Limits, Belief

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

Humanity, Able, Way

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.979, Wordsworth Editions

I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

Hands, World, Conformity

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.162, Oxford University Press on Demand

Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

Marriage, Wedding, Husband

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.126, Penguin

The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.

Men, Errors, May

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.67, Oxford University Press on Demand

Bigamy ? It's having one wife too much... ...Monogamy ? It's the same.

Wife, Funny Marriage, Too Much

The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

Art, College, Men

It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

Men, Judging, Judgement

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.702, GENERAL PRESS

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Cynical

Oscar Wilde (2009). “The Happy Prince and Other Stories”, p.90, Collector's Library

There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

Men, Males, Oscars

The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

Atheism, Vices, Sincerity

The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

Common, Problem, Persons

When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, "I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.

Sports, Special, Oscars

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

Personality, Intellectual, Intelligence

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.8, Mondial

It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

Travel, Cities, San Francisco

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.131, Wordsworth Editions

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

Hands, Sorrow, Wounds

Oscar Wilde (1961). “DE PROFUNDIS”, p.7, VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

Funny, Witty, Humor

Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Sympathy, Condolences, Would Be

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.216, Wordsworth Editions

In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

Baby, Time, Men

Oscar Wilde (2014). “Wilde Complete Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Woman of No Importance; Salome; The Duchess of Padua; Vera, or the Nihilists; A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane”, p.557, Bloomsbury Publishing

Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.

Bed, Oscars, Lasts

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.

Beauty, Beautiful, Christian

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1594, Delphi Classics

You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.

People, Doe, Dinner

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.703, Wordsworth Editions

The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

Common, Delightful, Ifs

Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.15, Prestwick House Inc

I never change, except in my affections.

Affection, Never Change

Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.149

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