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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 60

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We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

House, Body, Public Opinion

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.543, Wordsworth Editions

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

Thinking, Important, Society

Oscar Wilde (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.26, OUP Oxford

"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul."

Giving, Soul, Influence

"The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings".

I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

Learning, People, Programming

Oscar Wilde (1962). “The letters of Oscar Wilde”

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Party, People, Political

Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.290, Wordsworth Editions

I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.

People, House, Half

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.31, Wordsworth Editions

As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.

Business, Modern Journalism, Survival

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.664, GENERAL PRESS

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Beautiful, Book, Mean

The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

Men, Humanity, Worship

His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

Writing, Style, Lightning

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.221, Oxford University Press

I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.

Funny, Sarcastic, Inspiration

His reason for not playing cricket. Quoted in Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations (1988)

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

Funny, Truth, Gossip

A Woman of No Importance act 1 (1893)

Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

Want, Matter, Arguing

Oscar Wilde (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.268, OUP Oxford

I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.

Play, Wife, Secret

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.64, GENERAL PRESS

What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)

Grace, Portraits, Would Be

Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.104, Prestwick House Inc

There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

Real, Passion, Thinking

Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Essential Oscar Wilde”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

Giving, Ignorant, Listening

Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.28, Prestwick House Inc

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

Men, Knowing, Importance Of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.672, Wordsworth Editions

LADY BRACKNELL: Do you smoke? JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. LADY BRACKNELL: I'm glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.

Men, Occupation, Kind

"The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays".

[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

Humor

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity. My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out! The doctors found out that Bunbury could not , that is what I mean—so Bunbury died. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.

Mean, Aunt, Doctors

There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that - perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims.

Real, Passion, Exercise

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.36, GENERAL PRESS

You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

Book, Forgiving, Should

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.352, Oxford University Press on Demand

Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.

Summer, Flower, Vanity

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.20, GENERAL PRESS

Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?

White, People, Wonder

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.63, Mondial

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