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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 65

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One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

Giving, Luck, Age

Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.

Marriage, America, Now And Then

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.94, Wordsworth Editions

A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.

Men, Middle, Publishers

Letter in 'St James's Gazette' 28 June 1890

Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

Swimming, Doubt, Purpose

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.166, Courier Corporation

Art should never be popular.

Art, Should

Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.

Nuisance, Cleverness

Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.

Car, Buffets, Next

Life is like a box of terrible analogies.

Life Is Like, Analogies, Boxes

What the hell is an oboe?

Oboes, Hell

An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.

Opinion, Willing, Willing To Die

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

Age, Anachronism

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.201, Wordsworth Editions

Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

Essence, Greek, Dresses

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.150, Wordsworth Editions

The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.

Class, Criminals, Policemen

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1670, Delphi Classics

I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

Phrases, Existence, Epigrams

Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.

Sick, Dying, Dry

After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.

Forgiving, Quality, Dinner

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

Book, Men, May

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The critic as artist (low cost). Limited edition”, p.7, Oscar Wilde

The sky was pure opal now.

Sky, Opal, Pure

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.65, Oxford University Press on Demand

Truth is independent of facts always.

Truth, Independent, Facts

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The truth of masks 1891”, p.22, Oscar Wilde

And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

Tombstone, Men, Long

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.185, Oxford University Press, USA

The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.

Regret, Book, Mind

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

Funny, Music, People

1891 The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch.4.

Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

Depressing, Clever, Mean

Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.383, Wordsworth Editions

A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

Smile, Suicide, Depressing

Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

Sweet, Engagement, Owing

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