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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 57

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The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.

Art, Real, Poetry

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.15, University of Chicago Press

M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

Art, Genius, Zola

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.925, Wordsworth Editions

I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

Twenties, Shade, Nine

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.257, Delphi Classics

Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

Truth, Men, Forgive Me

Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.151

All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

Philosophical, Thinking, Essence

Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.137, Oxford Paperbacks

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.

Art, Creativity, Responsibility

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

Love, Hearing, Relation

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.19, Xist Publishing

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

Art, Real, Unique

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.270, University of Chicago Press

One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

Men, Judging, Effects

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.165, Diversion Books

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

Struggle, Silly, Mind

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.15, Oxford University Press on Demand

Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix will soar from her nest of fire into the air. We shall lay our hands upon the basilisk, and see the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.

Beautiful, Fire, Impossible Things

I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

Flower, Mirrors, Oxford

Oscar Wilde (1962). “Letters”

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

Reality, Dangerous, Ideals

Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.281, e-artnow

So lets knock a couple back and make some noise

Couple, Drinking, Noise

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

Beautiful, Art, Appreciate

Oscar Wilde (2014). “Miscellaneous Aphorisms: The Soul of Man”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.

Exercise, Form, Walks

Quoted in Alvin Redman The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde (1952).

And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

Men, Doe, Importance Of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.44, Heinemann

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

Beautiful, Art, Should

Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.85, Harvard University Press

I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

Men, Perfect, Bored

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.566, Wordsworth Editions

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

Divorce, Broken, Bondage

Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (1998). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.33, Oxford University Press, USA

Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

Men, Should Have, Action

Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.45, Wordsworth Editions

We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.

Heart, Broken, Sorrow

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.187, Oxford University Press on Demand

When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

Age, Immigration, Genius

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

Faith, Scepticism

Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Essential Oscar Wilde”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

Happiness, Oneself, Knows

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.16, Oscar Wilde

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