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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 34

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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

Life, Writing, Poetry

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.64, Diversion Books

The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

Men, Doe, Legends

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.197, Wordsworth Editions

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Love, Life, Breakup

The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 4 (1891). A very similar statement is found inWilde's playAWoman of No Importance, act 3 (1893).

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

People, Catholic, Church

The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

Class, Tragedy, Trouble

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

Government, Dramatic Life, Dramatic

A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.

Opportunity, Saws, Advantage

He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

Being Free, Want

Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, Lulu.com

I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

Writing, Giving, Desire

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.82, Courier Corporation

Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.

Art, Vitality, Weak

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.798, GENERAL PRESS

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

Marriage, Men, Agree

Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

Lakes, Poetry, Stones

Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.77, Courier Corporation

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Life, Art, Theatre

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1026, Wordsworth Editions

Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

Beauty, Real, Sunset

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.233, Oxford University Press

It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

Stupid, World, Ugly

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Life, Utterance, Spirit

Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.34, Courier Corporation

If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

Reality, Expression, Giving

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.118, Diversion Books

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

Men, Leisure, Aim

Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

America, Appreciate, World

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Fashion, Children, Parent

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.19, Oscar Wilde

I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

Passion, Zinc, Joy

Oscar Wilde (1962). “Letters”

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

Friendship, Real, Truthful

Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.187, Courier Corporation

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

Beautiful, Art, Aim

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

Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

Exercise, Class, Needs

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

Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

Running, Passion, Heart

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.19, GENERAL PRESS

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