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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 42

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Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

People, World, Harm

Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.168, Wordsworth Editions

Wisdom comes with winters

Life, Wisdom, Winter

Oscar Wilde (2008). “A Selection: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.227, ReadHowYouWant.com

And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.

Moon, Sky, Yellow

Oscar Wilde (2015). “Salome”, p.26, Broadview Press

Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

Philosophy, Fall, Autumn

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Essays and Lectures”, p.73, Xist Publishing

Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

Slave Owners, People, Being Real

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.256, University of Chicago Press

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

Vices, Ruins, Strange

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.58, Oxford University Press on Demand

One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.

Muffins, Way, Should

"The Importance of Being Earnest".

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Beautiful, Ugly, Faults

Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.11, Prestwick House Inc

There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

Long, Waiting, Doe

Quoted in Andre Gide, Oscar Wilde: In Memoriam (1910)

I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

Ideas, Soul, Want

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.251, Oxford University Press on Demand

Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

Information, Modern, Source

Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.306, Wordsworth Editions

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

Inspirational, Knowing, Taught

Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.

Running, Hair, Faces

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.46, GENERAL PRESS

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

Funny, Sarcastic, Noses

Oscar Wilde (2013). “An Ideal Husband: Second Edition, Revised”, p.36, A&C Black

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

Men, Long, Forgiving

Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.114, BoD – Books on Demand

The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.

Writing, Novelists, Fiction

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.838, GENERAL PRESS

The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.

Political, Growing, Influence

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.103, Oxford Paperbacks

We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

Age, Industrious

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.691, GENERAL PRESS

I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.

Albania, Maps

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

Hate, Ethics, Abstract

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.192, Wordsworth Editions

However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.

Girl, Thinking, Intellectual

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.608, Wordsworth Editions

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

Parent, Sin, Hunger

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.50, Oscar Wilde

There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.

Women, Two, Kind

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.38, Oxford University Press on Demand

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

Beautiful, Mean, Beautiful Things

Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.11, Prestwick House Inc

The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

People, Secret, Attention

Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.30, BoD – Books on Demand

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