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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 50

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Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too.

Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too.

Change, Meaningless

And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

Problem, Life Is, Ifs

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.102, Oxford University Press on Demand

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Charity, Sin, Multitudes

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Soul of Man under Socialism”, p.4, Oscar Wilde

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.

Stones, Offensive, Made

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1056, Wordsworth Editions

One should absorb the color of life.

Color, Should, Colors Of Life

Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.89, Prestwick House Inc

I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.

Exercise, Yesterday, Bed

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

Wise, Men, World

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.826, GENERAL PRESS

There is only good art and mediocre art.

Art, Mediocre, Good Art

Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.

Mother, Achievement, Suffering

No one wants to see a play called 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. It's going to be called 'Cocks in Frocks II' or I will find another publisher

Play, Fans, Want

At six o'clock we cleaned our cells, At seven all was still, But the sough and swing of a mighty wing The prison seemed to fill, For the Lord of Death with icy breath Had entered in to kill.

Swings, Cells, Icy

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.179, Oxford University Press, USA

All women are rebels.

Rebel

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Art, Lying, Duty

Oscar Wilde (2015). “Oscar Wilde The Dover Reader”, p.447, Courier Dover Publications

Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

Flames, People, Common Sense

"Fictional character: Lord Henry Wotton". "Dorian Gray", www.imdb.com. 2009.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

Meals, Moderation, Enough

Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Love, Forgiving, Enough

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.826, GENERAL PRESS

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

Art, Father, Not Good Enough

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.32, Mondial

MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.

Lasts, Mystery, Mood

Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.232, Wordsworth Editions

There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all, for he has gone away." "Well, that is his loss, not mine," answered the Rocket. "I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." "Then you should definitely lecture on Philosophy," said the Dragon-fly.

Clever, Philosophy, Loss

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1998). “Complete Shorter Fiction”, p.134, Oxford University Press, USA

Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.

Thinking, Mind, Poor

Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.22, Prestwick House Inc

Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

Time, Misunderstood

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Miscellanies”, p.132, Oscar Wilde

I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

Principles, Prejudice, Ethics

Oscar Wilde (1983). “Two Society Comedies”, A&C Black

I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.

Differences, Said, Fascinated

Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.109, Prestwick House Inc

Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

Art, Infancy, Interest

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.51, Wordsworth Editions

Love is easily killed.

Love Is

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.101, Wordsworth Editions

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