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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 63

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The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.

The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.

Heart, Weather, Sun

Oscar Wilde (1962). “Letters”

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

Pain, Writing, Character

Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.183, Courier Corporation

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

Ideas, Intellectual, Development

"Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

Heartless, Cuffs, Muffins

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.41, Courier Corporation

Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

Thinking, Personality, Religion

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.168, First Avenue Editions

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

Numbers, Confirmation, Envious

I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

Heart, Eye, Soul

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.14, Oxford University Press on Demand

I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

Dream, Memories, Artist

Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.130, Lulu Press, Inc

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

Beautiful, Morning, Orchids

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.544, Wordsworth Editions

LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.

Falling In Love, Thinking, Faces

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.123, Penguin

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

Courage, Giving, Temptation

If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!

Independent, Men, Trying

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.692, GENERAL PRESS

Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber

Youth, Like You, Middle

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.565, Wordsworth Editions

Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

Stupid, Silly, People

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.7, Oscar Wilde

I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.

Summer, Home, Heart

Oscar Wilde (1961). “DE PROFUNDIS”, p.10, VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to solve no social problem, and busied itself not about such things, but suffered the individual to develop freely, beautifully, and naturally, and so had great and individual artists, and great, individual men. One might point out how Louis XIV, by creating the modern state, destroyed the individualism of the artist.

Artist, Men, Creating

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

Writing, Ignorance, Three

Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 1 (1891)

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

Intelligent, Found

Oscar Wilde (2014). “Wilde Complete Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Woman of No Importance; Salome; The Duchess of Padua; Vera, or the Nihilists; A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane”, p.41, Bloomsbury Publishing

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

Sympathy, Pain, Morbid

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

Silence, Moments, Psychological

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.184, Oxford University Press on Demand

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

World Suffering, Gray, Dorian Grey

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.46, Diversion Books

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

Regret, Luxury, Done

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.23, Diversion Books

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

Hypocrite, Men, Ideas

Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

History is merely gossip

Gossip

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.9, Oscar Wilde

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

Art, School, Taste

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.28, University of Chicago Press

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