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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 47

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Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

Vulgarity Is, People, Ideal Husband

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.212, Oxford Paperbacks

Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.

Want, Want Me, Dear

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.161, Courier Corporation

When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.

Hair, Two, America

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.

Leadership, Voice, People

Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.279, OUP Oxford

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Regret, Mistake, Common Sense

The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 3 (1891)

Every thing to be true must become a religion.

Truth, Being True

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.98, Oxford University Press on Demand

Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.

Unspeakable

I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel

Smart, Hegel

The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.

Mean, Universe

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

Art, Good Intentions, Results

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.133, Oxford University Press on Demand

Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.

Moon, Looks, Rising

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.65, OUP Oxford

If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

Differences, Three, Obscurity

Oscar Wilde, Richard Butler Glaenzer (1906). “Decorative Art in America: A Lecture, Together with Letters, Reviews and Interviews. Edited, with an Introd. by Richard Butler Glaenzer”

For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.

Heart, Years, Space

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.128, Oxford University Press on Demand

Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleance me in the great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

Sweet, Hurt, Stars

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.152, Oxford University Press on Demand

Any place you love is the world to you.

Love Is, World, Places You Love

Oscar Wilde (2008). “Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde”, p.44, Penguin

It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."

Art, Book, Carpe Diem

Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

Fashion, Flower, Clothes

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

Heart, Reality, Law

Oscar Wilde (2014). “Ballad of Reading Gaol”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.

Nonsense

All criticism is a form of autobiography

Criticism, Form, Autobiography

Nature is always behind the age

Age, Behinds

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.223, Oxford University Press

Industry is the root of all ugliness.

Roots, Industry, Ugliness

Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.56, Courier Corporation

An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

Ornaments, Oratory

Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.

Ocean, America, Atlantic Ocean

America is not a country, it is a world.

Country, America, World

Oscar Wilde (2010). “Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews”, p.66, University of Illinois Press

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