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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 36

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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

Suffering, World, Kind

Oscar Wilde (2008). “De Profundis: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.33, ReadHowYouWant.com

I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.

Mistake, Garden, Tree

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.718, GENERAL PRESS

Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

Jealousy, War, Rose

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.25, Oxford University Press on Demand

Sphinxes without secrets.

Women, Secret, Sphinx

Oscar Wilde (2012). “A Woman of No Importance (with audio): Enhanced Edition with Full Cast Audio Performance”, p.24, L.A. Theatre Works

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

Blue, China, Harder

Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.12, Bloomsbury Publishing

I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

Sorry, Suffering, Extravagance

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

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

Long, Suffering, Moments

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.82, Oxford University Press on Demand

Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Art, Clever, Intellectual

Oscar Wilde (1930). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Importance of Being Earnest ; The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Works of Oscar Wilde”

Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

Dark, Reflection, Moon

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.26, GENERAL PRESS

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

Anniversary, Single, Funny Valentines Day

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.32, Courier Corporation

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

People, Humanity, Philanthropy

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.45, First Avenue Editions

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

New York, Dine In, Philadelphia

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1023, GENERAL PRESS

I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.

Garden, Thinking, Air

Oscar Wilde (1961). “DE PROFUNDIS”, p.33, VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

Art, Ideas, Fulfillment

Oscar Wilde (2014). “De Profundis”, p.28, Trajectory Inc

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

Real, Exaggeration Is, Expression

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.170, Oxford University Press on Demand

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

Failure, Character, Suffering

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.496, Wordsworth Editions

No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.

Wedding, Men, Should Have

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.194, Penguin

Credit is a young man's capital.

Men, Credit, Young

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Family, Witty, Time

'A Woman of No Importance' (1893) act 2

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

Would Be, Wonderful, Mist

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.156, GENERAL PRESS

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

Writing, Thinking, Despair

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.112, Wordsworth Editions

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

People, Gossip, World

People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

Artist, Government, People

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.282, University of Chicago Press

More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.

Aging, Faithfulness, Admirer

Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.476, e-artnow

What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

Men, Soul, Shadow

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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