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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 62

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The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves

The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves

Slave Owners, Kind, Worst

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1041, Wordsworth Editions

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Mother Daughter, Mother And Daughter, Years

The Governor was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract.

Strong, Science, Doctors

'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' (1898) pt. 3, st. 3

So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.

Ignorance, Self, Mad

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.103, GENERAL PRESS

Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

Men, Giving, Tomorrow

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1518, GENERAL PRESS

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

Government, Unjust, Made

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1049, Wordsworth Editions

The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

Family, Wall, Father

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1861, Delphi Classics

Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

Praying, Produce, Explanation

Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.14

Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.

Girl, Feet, Long

Oscar Wilde, “The Harlot's House”

And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart

Heart, Sky, Rose

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.330, Wordsworth Editions

The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us. In some tiny ivory cell the brain stores the most delicate, and the most fleeting impressions.

Memories, Flower, Passion

My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly! You didn't know it then-you know it now.

Love You, Moments, I Loved You

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.506, Wordsworth Editions

The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.

Two, Anxiety, Secret

Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

Mean, Men, Civilization

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.229, Diversion Books

And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.

Sweet, Heart, Wine

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.154, Oxford University Press on Demand

It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame.

Dream, Memories, Passion

With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

Strong, Passion, Men

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.219, Diversion Books

The supreme vice is shallowness.

Vices, Supreme, Shallowness

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

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

Hands, Verbs, Lord Henry

Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.40, Prestwick House Inc

Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.

Country, Paradise, Reason Why

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

People, Buttons, Lord Henry

Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.36, Prestwick House Inc

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

Magic, Vivid, Subtle

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.22, Oxford University Press on Demand

It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

Sweet, Life And Love, Air

Oscar Wilde (2015). “Ballade of reading Gaol”, p.6, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

Firsts, Importance Of Being Earnest, First Time

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.60, Xist Publishing

My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression

Importance Of Being Earnest, Dentist, Produce

'The Importance of Being Earnest' (1895) act 1

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