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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 45

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

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

Subjects, Knows

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

Funny, Sister, Sarcastic

Oscar Wilde, Harford Montgomery Hyde (1982). “The annotated Oscar Wilde”

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

Giving, Romance, Acting

Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

Book, Reading, Writing

Oscar Wilde (2014). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.37, BoD – Books on Demand

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

Men, Enough, Should

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.34, Courier Corporation

The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

Flirty, Husband, Flirting

Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.17

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Life, Learning, Growth

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.22, Courier Corporation

In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

Men, Racks, Old Days

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1047, GENERAL PRESS

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

Long, Dresses, Littles

Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.391, Wordsworth Editions

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

Book, Writing, Abandoned

The truth is never pure and rarely simple.

Simple, Truth Is, Economics

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

Strong, World, Lasts

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.208, Oxford University Press on Demand

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

Art, Dignity, Moments

I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.

Tired, Night, Should

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.292, Oxford University Press on Demand

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Country, Temptation, Be Good

'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891) ch. 19

I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips

Kissing, Lips, Walt

"Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles and Imitations" by John Stokes, Cambridge University Press, 1996.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

Paris, Best American, Dies

The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 3 (1891). Similar dialogue appears inWilde's A Woman of No Importance (1893) as well. See OliverWendell Holmes 4

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Life, Death, Reality

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

Real, Being Real, Shadow

Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.112, OUP Oxford

There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.

Summer, Stars, Butterfly

Oscar Wilde (2014). “Poems”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Funny, Music, Witty

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.257, Penguin

He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression.

Expression, Trying, Strange

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.27, GENERAL PRESS

If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

Would Be, Poverty, Problem

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions

Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

People, Trying, Exhausted

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

Art, Genius, Talent

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