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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 67

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You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life.

You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.

Names, Looks, Answers

Oscar Wilde (1957). “The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. The Original Four-act Version”, p.8, Prabhat Prakashan

ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.

Girl, Admiration, Mets

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.14, Xist Publishing

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

Clever, Sick, People

Oscar Wilde (1930). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Importance of Being Earnest ; The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Works of Oscar Wilde”

Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

Laughter, Pain, Joy

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.105, Oxford University Press on Demand

She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but has she got feeling? I am afraid not. In fact, she is like most artists; she is all style, without any sincerity. She would not sacrifice herself for others. She thinks merely of music, and everybody knows that arts are selfish. Still, it must be admitted that she has some beautiful notes in her voice. What a pity it is that they do not mean anything, or do any practical good.

Beautiful, Art, Selfish

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Happy Prince and Other Stories (Illustrated Edition)”, p.17, GENERAL PRESS

"I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir."

Giving, Perfect, Satisfaction

"Wilde Complete Plays".

In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

Thinking, Proud, Way

Oscar Wilde (1898). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.63, Orchises Press

I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

Business, Missing, Anxious

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.269, Penguin

And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.

Grief, Blessing, House

Oscar Wilde (1984). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.41, Dramatic Publishing

I find I have, and a heart doesn’t suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn’t go with modern dress. It makes one look old.

Heart, Dresses, Looks

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Lady Windermere's Fan”, p.67, Courier Corporation

You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

Picture Of Dorian Gray, Destroyed

Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.222, Harvard University Press

I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.

Too Much, Gray, Dorian Grey

Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

Soul, Tragedy, Body

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.548, Wordsworth Editions

What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.

Progress, Essentials, Elements

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.672, GENERAL PRESS

He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.

Love Is, Stronger, Life Is

Oscar Wilde (2009). “The Happy Prince and Other Stories”, p.296, Collector's Library

He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

Country, Bullying, Dog

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.25, Wordsworth Editions

I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

Mind, Excuse, Puritan

Oscar Wilde (1986). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”

The only proper intoxication is conversation.

Conversation, Intoxication, Drunkenness

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.152, Wordsworth Editions

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

Age, Ethics, Morality

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.50, Mondial

The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

Funny, Sarcastic, Wine

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.123, Wordsworth Editions

America is one long expectoration.

Sarcastic, America, Long

John Stuart Anderson, Oscar Wilde (1982). “The picture of Dorian Gray: a modern theatre adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic novel”

Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

Men, Married, Bachelors

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.322, Bloomsbury Publishing

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

Sacrifice, Self, Survival

Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.195, Wordsworth Editions

Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

Ignorant, Speech, Conversation

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.349, University of Chicago Press

When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

Interesting, People, Speech

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.659, GENERAL PRESS

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