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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 48

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Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.

Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.

Love, Dorian Grey, Portrait Of Dorian Gray

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.336, Oxford University Press on Demand

There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstand, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous, and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own.

Passion, Evil, Imagination

Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

Well, I can’t help going to see Sibyl play, even if it is only for an act. I get hungry for her presence; and when I think of the wonderful soul that is hidden away in that little ivory body, I am filled with awe." "You can dine with me to-night, Dorian, can’t you?" He shook his head. "To night she is Imogen," he answered, "and tomorrow night she will be Juliet." "When is she Sibyl Vane?" "Never." "I congratulate you.

Night, Thinking, Play

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.40, Wordsworth Editions

It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

Fairness, Apologizing, Modern

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.21, Oxford University Press, USA

Everyone should keep someone else's diary.

Diaries, Should

Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.84, Courier Corporation

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

Beautiful, Individual, States

Oscar Wilde (2014). “Miscellaneous Aphorisms: The Soul of Man”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

Luxury, God Bless, Can Do

You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.

Sacrifice, Simple, Self

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.131, Penguin

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

Hate, Men, Use

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.212, Diversion Books

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

Passion, Class, Easy

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.191, Courier Corporation

Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

Leadership, House, Guests

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

Art, Philosophy, Made

Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

Romance, Bed, Buried

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.65, Mondial

The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

Hero, Class, Criminals

Oscar Wilde, Bob Blaisdell, Odette Blaisdell (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.155, Courier Corporation

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

Life, Dangerous, Dear

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.194, Penguin

There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.

Easier, Wells, Dies

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.380, Wordsworth Editions

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

Fashion, Artist, Gourmet

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1844, Delphi Classics

I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.

Sacrifice, Thinking, World

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.112, Diversion Books

It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

Space, People, Old Friends

Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.44, Prestwick House Inc

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

Looks, Innocence, Escapade

Oscar Wilde (2009). “The Happy Prince and Other Stories”, p.84, Collector's Library

It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.

Ideas, Waiting, Painful

Life is a great disappointment.

Life, Disappointment, Life Is

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.114, Mondial

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

Art, Writing, Looks

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.41, Wordsworth Editions

In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

Hero, Firsts, Christ

Oscar Wilde (2012). “Ein Granatapfelhaus”, p.103, marixverlag

Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

Art, Philosophy, Civilization

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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