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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 68

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The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

Funny Relationship, Men, Luck

Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (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.306, Oxford Paperbacks

And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

Cat, Ivory, Yellow

Oscar Wilde (2014). “Poems”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

You know what a woman's curiosity is.

Curiosity, Knows

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.171, OUP Oxford

I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

Switzerland, Theologian, Waiter

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.136, Wordsworth Editions

The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

Pillars, Culture, Use

Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

Fashion, Moments, Fantastic

Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

Funny, Witty, Luxury

Oscar Wilde (1999). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, Holt McDougal

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

Funny, Humor, Punishment

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1649, Delphi Classics

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

Funny, Women, Stupid

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.61, Bloomsbury Publishing

A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

People, Corn, Toes

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.355, Wordsworth Editions

Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

Art, Nature, Voice

Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

Feelings, Inferiority, Consciousness

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.356, Wordsworth Editions

It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

Order, Evil, Use

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1034, GENERAL PRESS

I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

Air, Ideas, Fancy

Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.

Pertinent Questions, May, Firsts

What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

Men, Innocence, Admire

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.14, Oscar Wilde

Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

Personality, Important, Looks

Oscar Wilde (2009). “The Happy Prince and Other Stories”, p.84, Collector's Library

In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

Beautiful, Art, Home

Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

Eye, Men, Blue

The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 1, st. 3 (1898)

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Marriage, Husband, Men

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.62, University of Chicago Press

Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

Media, News, May

1889 'The Decay of Lying', first published in the Nineteenth Century Review.

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

Art, Atheism, Age

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1618, Delphi Classics

What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.

Home, Land, Giving

Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

Art, Government, Growth

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Talking, Two, People

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