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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 33

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No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

Art, Censorship, Survived

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.42, Wordsworth Editions

There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

Too Late, Resolution, Made

Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.269, Harvard University Press

There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.

Love, Relationship, Anniversary

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

Love, Men, People

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast”, p.29, Penguin UK

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

Thinking, Arguing, Lost

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.12, Wordsworth Editions

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.

Art, Soul, Unity

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.170, Oxford University Press on Demand

They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

Writing, Artist, Doe

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1054, Wordsworth Editions

It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.

Development, Rooms

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.260, Oxford Paperbacks

It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

Art, Healing

Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Artist As Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.275, Random House

Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

Simple, Tea, Pleasure

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.888, Delphi Classics

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

Age, Bishops, Eighteen

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.204, Courier Corporation

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful

Beautiful, Art, Philosophy

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.95, Oxford University Press on Demand

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

Pain, Portraits, Oblivion

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.316, Penguin

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

Happiness, Expression, Joy

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.701, GENERAL PRESS

All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.

Spring, Feet, Rose

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.128, Oxford University Press on Demand

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

Writing

In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

Religion, Serious, Temples

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

Thinking, People, Insulting

Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.209, Courier Corporation

Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

Dog, Strong, Feet

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.152, GENERAL PRESS

I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

Genius, Talent

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

Food, Oysters, Sick

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

Imagination Creativity, Consistency, Oscars

Quoted in Hesketh Pearson, Oscar Wilde: His Life and Wit (1946)

One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.

Always Happy

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.172, Wordsworth Editions

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

Love, Funny, Humorous

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.212, Diversion Books

As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

Wise, Destiny, Doe

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.154, GENERAL PRESS

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