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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 41

All Quotes Achievement Acting Affection Age Aging Ambition Anger Appearance Appreciation Arguing Art Atheism Atmosphere Attitude Authority Beauty Beer Being Happy Being Real Being Single Being Yourself Belief Betrayal Blame Break Up Business Censorship Change Chaos Character Charity Children Christ Church College Common Sense Community Conformity Conscience Consciousness Cooking Country Courage Creativity Crime Criticism Critics Culture Curiosity Death Deception Defeat Desire Destiny Dignity Disappointment Doubt Drama Drinking Drunkenness Duty Dying Earth Eating Education Environment Ethics Evil Exercise Failing Failure Faith Falling In Love Family Fashion Fear Feelings Fidelity Fighting Flirting Food Forgiveness Friends Friendship Funny Future Genius Giving Gold Goodness Gossip Graduation Gratitude Greatness Greek Grief Growing Old Growth Happiness Hard Work Harmony Hate Hatred Heart Heartbreak Heaven Hell Hilarious History Home Honesty Hope Horror House Human Nature Humanity Hurt Husband Hypocrisy Ignorance Imagination Imitation Impulse Individualism Individuality Innocence Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Irony Journalism Joy Judgement Judging Kissing Knowledge Language Laughter Leadership Learning Liars Liberty Life Life And Love Listening Literature Live Life Logic Loss Lost Love Love Love Life Luck Lust Lying Madness Mankind Manners Marriage Mask Maturity Mediocrity Memories Moderation Money Moon Morality Morning Motivational Mourning Music Nature Oblivion Opportunity Optimism Pain Passion Past Peace Perception Perfection Personality Perspective Pessimism Philosophy Pleasure Poetry Positive Poverty Prayer Prejudice Progress Purpose Quality Rage Reading Reality Rebellion Regret Rejection Religion Reputation Respect Risk Romance Romantic Love Romanticism Running Sacrifice Sad Sadness Sarcasm School Science Selfishness Silence Simplicity Sin Sincerity Sleep Society Solitude Sorrow Soul Spring Struggle Study Stupidity Style Success Suffering Summer Survival Sympathy Talent Tea Teaching Temptation Terror Theatre Time Tragedy Train Travel Truth Ugliness Understanding Utopia Values Virtue Vision Waiting Wall War Water Weakness Wife Wine Winning Winter Wisdom Wit Work Worship Writing Yoga Youth

A kiss may ruin a human life

A kiss may ruin a human life

Life, Kissing, May

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.164, Penguin

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

Women, Ruins, Cry

Oscar Wilde (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.15, OUP Oxford

A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

Fashion, Ties, Style

Oscar Wilde, John Cooper (2013). “Oscar Wilde on Dress (ebook): Including –The Philosophy of Dress– by Oscar Wilde”, p.15, CSM Press

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

Men, History, Sides

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Thought Provoking, World, Know Yourself

Oscar Wilde (2015). “Lady Windermere's Fan”, p.33, Oscar Wilde

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Funny, Wisdom, Selfish People

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.61, First Avenue Editions

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Book, Reading, Writing

The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Funny, Music, Love You

Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.266, Wordsworth Editions

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

Wicked Person, Looks, Mets

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.26, Xist Publishing

I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

Beautiful, People, Listening

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.201, Courier Corporation

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

Time, Maturity, People

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.75, Penguin

I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

Inspirational, Education, Different

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.152, Wordsworth Editions

There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

Drinking, Occasional, Funny Drinking

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

Blood, Hands, Liberty

I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

Integrity, Character, House

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.96, Oxford University Press, USA

It is personalities not principles that move the age.

Moving, Writing, Personality

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.217, Oxford University Press on Demand

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Funny, Book, Humor

Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.76, Bloomsbury Publishing

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.

Men, Errors, Burden

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

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Determination, Ambition, Growth

I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

Expression, Play, Piano

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.217, Bloomsbury Publishing

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

Writing, Greatness, Men

Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 1 (1891)

I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

Inspirational, Believe, Imagination

"The Picture of Dorian Gray".

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

Beautiful, Evil, Realizing

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.125, Oxford University Press on Demand

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

Art, Nature, Links

Oscar Wilde (2013). “An Ideal Husband: Second Edition, Revised”, p.85, A&C Black

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

Ignorance, Community, Public Opinion

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.118, Courier Corporation

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