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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 51

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When good Americans die, they go to Paris Where do bad Americans go? They stay in America

When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America

Paris, America, Dies

A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

Poet, Really Great, Creatures

Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

Law, Useless, Resolution

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.253, Oxford University Press on Demand

All art is quite useless.

Funny, Sarcastic, Art

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

The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.

Country, Lying, Hero

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.304, University of Chicago Press

The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.

Forgiveness, Caves, Sin

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”, p.126, Oscar Wilde

We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes.

Eye, Men, Ears

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.136, Wordsworth Editions

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

Importance Of Being Earnest, Deny, Earnest

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.701, Wordsworth Editions

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

Life, Fashion, Religious

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.453, Oxford University Press on Demand

It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

Giving Up, Mistake, Men

Art never expresses anything but itself.

Art

'The Decay of Lying' in 'Intentions' (1891)

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Book, Writing, Reading Literature

The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.

Summer, Garden, Light

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.7, First Avenue Editions

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Funny, Witty, Book

Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892)

Ah! somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us!

Life, Angel, Life Is

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.774, Delphi Classics

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

Life, Political, Cities At Night

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.54, University of Chicago Press

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

Ignorance, Natural

The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

Done, Literature, Singers

Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.93, Courier Corporation

The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.

America, People, World

Oscar Wilde, Matthew Hofer, Gary Scharnhorst (2010). “Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews”, p.177, University of Illinois Press

They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance

Looks, Muffins, Eating

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.159, Penguin

Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.

Believe, Opinion, Moral

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories”, p.141, Penguin

We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone.

Able, England, Insult

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1053, Wordsworth Editions

As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

Punishment, Community, Political

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.50, Oscar Wilde

He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.

Morning, Stars, Romantic Love

The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering.

Swings, Lilies, Coats

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.849, Wordsworth Editions

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