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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 35

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There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

Animal, Action, Emotion

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1466, Delphi Classics

Disobedience is man's original virtue.

Men, Virtue, Originals

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Funny, Sarcastic, Suspense Novels

Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

Time, People, Purpose

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.230, Oxford Paperbacks

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

Art, Art Is, Spectators

Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Essential Oscar Wilde”, p.344, Simon and Schuster

He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

Morning, Work, Night

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.594, Wordsworth Editions

I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

Mind, Doe, Prejudice

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Happy Prince and Other Tales”, p.35, Xist Publishing

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

Names, Giving, Lovely

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.812, GENERAL PRESS

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Family, People, Faults

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

The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

Lying, Healthy, Absence

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.693, GENERAL PRESS

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

Art, Book, School

Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.284, OUP Oxford

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

Truth, Lying, Simple

Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.368, Wordsworth Editions

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

Art, Eye, Personality

Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.17, Prestwick House Inc

His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.

Passion, Simple, New Experiences

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.51, GENERAL PRESS

A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

Honesty, Men, Dust

Oscar Wilde (2011). “De Profundis”, p.81, Courier Corporation

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

Civilization, Needs, Libertarian

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

Witty, People, Conformity

Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Beauty, Art, Prejudice

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

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

Art, Diversity, Opinion

Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.8, Prestwick House Inc

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

Art, Insulting, England

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Miscellanies”, p.135, Oscar Wilde

I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

People, Scandal, Novelty

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.128, Oxford University Press on Demand

The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

Weed, Men, Air

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.213, Oxford University Press on Demand

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

Want, Firsts, Doormat

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

Funny, Sarcastic, Heaven

The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

Lying, Perspective, Healthy

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.222, University of Chicago Press

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