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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 43

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When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I

When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.

Unhappy, Muffins, Trouble

Oscar Wilde (1956). “Annotated The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People with English Grammar Exercises: by Oscar Wilde (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.72, Powell Publications, LLC

Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.

America, Train, Seems

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

Education, Learning, Men

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.57, Oxford University Press

The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

Beauty, Beautiful, Art

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.758, GENERAL PRESS

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

Tragedy, Bores, Delightful

'A Woman of No Importance' (1893) act 3

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

Men, Vanity, Law

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories”, p.101, Penguin

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

Clever, Sick, Nuisance

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.680, Wordsworth Editions

It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

Needs, Prison, Prisoner

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.164, Oxford University Press, USA

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Birthday, Witty, Time

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1389, GENERAL PRESS

In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

Strong, Wicked, World

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.127, Mondial

If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

Country, Memories, Tombstone

Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.8, Courier Corporation

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

Talking, Argument, Saving Time

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.358, Wordsworth Editions

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

Work, Toil, Bitter

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.364, GENERAL PRESS

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

Poverty, Pity, Virtue

'The Soul of Man under Socialism'

By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.

Tasks, Littles, Brilliant

The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

Stupidity, Sin

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

Anger, Men, Rage

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.127, Penguin

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

Gratitude, Grateful, Blessing

Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

Art, Disappointment, Sacrifice

Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.48, Courier Corporation

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

Witty, Heart, Laughing

Quoted in Letters to the Sphinx from Oscar Wilde (1930)

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

Betrayal, Tombstone, Writing

For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.

Grief, Taken, Moon

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

To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

Self, Harmony, Be Good

Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.69, Xist Publishing

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

Happiness, Regret, Loss

Oscar Wilde (2010). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.223, Bibliolis Books

The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

Years, Two, Hard

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