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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 56

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Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating

Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

Art, Unique, Hands

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.937, Wordsworth Editions

George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

Locks, Reader

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.74, Wordsworth Editions

Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

Morning, Eye, Night

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.360, GENERAL PRESS

Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.

Perception, Shadow, Strange

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.161, Oxford University Press on Demand

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

Art, Government, Ridiculous

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.282, University of Chicago Press

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

Believe, Past, People

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.155, Oxford University Press on Demand

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

Self, People, Honor

Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.51, Prestwick House Inc

If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

Time, Men, Should Have

Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.94, Oscar Wilde

Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

Taken, Love Is, Kneeling

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.181, Oxford University Press on Demand

Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

Genius, Mediocrity, Pay

Oscar Wilde (1971). “Witticisms of Oscar Wilde”

If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

Prayer, Punishment, Answers

When I was young, I was no one. Now, I'm worldwilde.

Young

Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

Mother, Father, Pay

Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

Reform, World, Want

A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

Book, Pity, Written

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

Sympathy, Morality, Should

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.120, Oxford University Press on Demand

It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.

Funny, Friendship, Humor

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.188, Courier Corporation

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

Trying, Poverty, Impossible

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.256, University of Chicago Press

The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.

Style, Littles, Way

Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.133

In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

Style, Important, Essentials

Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.66, BoD – Books on Demand

Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

Passion, Soul, Events

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.190, Oxford University Press on Demand

My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love. I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wise to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness! Now I see that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the musical chords which make a perfect soul. Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me.

Wise, Sweet, Art

That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

Philosophy, Real, Soul

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.365, University of Chicago Press

You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.

Might

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.19, GENERAL PRESS

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

Real, Modern Life, Elements

Oscar Wilde (2010). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.33, Bibliolis Books

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