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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 70

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Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of

Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.

Husband, Thinking, Blow

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.205, OUP Oxford

Ah! that quite does for me. I haven't a word to say... Too much care was taken with our education, I am afraid. To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much.

Taken, Too Much, Doe

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.146, Penguin

And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.

Class, Trying, Criminals

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.248, Oxford University Press

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

Real, Expression, Intellectual

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.170, Oxford University Press on Demand

I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

Teaching, Taken, Enthusiasm

I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

Intellectual, Listening, Degenerates

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.248, Oxford University Press

The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians.

Stupid, Race, Mind

Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

Men, Intellectual, Trying

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

That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.

Art, Men, People

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Essays and Lectures”, p.86, Xist Publishing

Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.

Notorious, Ifs

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.248, Courier Corporation

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

Art, Care, Study

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.921, Wordsworth Editions

An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

Girl, Engagement, May

Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.25, Bloomsbury Publishing

No gentleman ever has any money.

Gentleman

Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.159, Bloomsbury Publishing

And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.

Dust, Humanity, Lust

Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Essential Oscar Wilde”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?

Queens, Men, Sea

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.136, Oxford University Press on Demand

Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.

Russia, Reform, Fool

Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.12, Wordsworth Editions

Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.

Liberty, Artistic, Resorts

To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

Mean, Men, Enemy

Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.23, Wordsworth Editions

Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.

Chrysanthemums, Gilded, Merchandise

The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me

Quoting

She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust.

Mean, Dust, Earth

Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!

Nudity, Adam, Adam And Eve

Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)

Saws

All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?

Love Is, Truth Is

Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

Philosophy, Normal, Matchboxes

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