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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 53

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Art, Creativity, Thinking

Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee

Jesus, Prayer, Lakes

Oscar Wilde (2014). “Poems”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he succeeded....He stands apart, and the chief value of his work is in its prophecy, not in its performance. He has begun a prelude to larger themes. He is the herald to a new era. As a man he is the precursor of a fresh type. He is a factor in the heroic and spiritual evolution of the human being. If Poetry has passed him by, Philosophy will take note of him.

Spiritual, Art, Philosophy

When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

Mean, Water, Sandwiches

There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

Misery, Mystery

Oscar Wilde (2002). “The Happy Prince”, p.12, Electric Book Company

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

Women, Strange, Surrender

Oscar Wilde (1998). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.7, Courier Corporation

To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

Marriage, Character, Opportunity

"The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. The Original Four-act Version".

You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

Heart, Long, Secret

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.212, Wordsworth Editions

Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

Life Is, Terrible

Oscar Wilde (2015). “Lady Windermere's Fan”, p.61, Oscar Wilde

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

Life, Mistake, Thinking

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.198, Penguin

Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

Two, Storm, Way

'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' (1898) pt. 2, st. 12

We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.

Blood, Hands, White

Oscar Wilde, Merlin Holland (2003). “Collins complete works of Oscar Wilde”, HarperCollins UK

I'm not nearly young enough to know everything

Enough, Young, Knows

...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

Father, Oxford, Two

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.99, Oxford University Press on Demand

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Respect, Dying, Young

Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.65, Courier Corporation

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.

Doe, Littles, Little Things

Oscar wilde (1943). “The Happy Prince and Other Tales (Illustrated)”, p.14, LCI

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

Hitting, Unbearable, Reason

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

As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

Men, People, Wicked

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.203, Delphi Classics

And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.

America, People, Prejudice

Oscar Wilde (2010). “Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews”, p.28, University of Illinois Press

I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.

Misunderstood, Being Misunderstood

It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

Errors, America, Vulgar

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.433, Oxford University Press on Demand

Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.

Men, Doe, Died

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

Thought Provoking, Quality, Human Nature

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1062, Wordsworth Editions

He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.

Humorous, Vices, Redeeming

The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

Men, People, Married

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.93, Wordsworth Editions

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