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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 71

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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

Art, Class, Criminals

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.223, Courier Corporation

As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.

Mad, Curiosity, Looks

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.36, Wordsworth Editions

My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

Moon, Saint, Worship

Oscar Wilde (2003). “Salome”, p.172, Editions du héron

Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?

Heart, Winning, Men

The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 5, st. 14 (1898)

And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

Winning, Games, Play

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.379, GENERAL PRESS

Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

Passion, Men, Legacy

Oscar Wilde (2014). “Miscellaneous Aphorisms: The Soul of Man”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

Men, Law, Coward

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.817, GENERAL PRESS

People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

Lying, People, Enemy

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.197, Wordsworth Editions

Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

Real, Lying, Imagination

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

Art, School, Art Is

Intentions "The Decay of Lying" (1891)

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

Disappointment, Fall, Taken

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.7, University of Chicago Press

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Character, Funny Relationship, Men

The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 1 (1891)

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Inspirational, Funny, Witty

Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.3, Courier Corporation

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Life, World, Modern

Oscar Wilde (2013). “An Ideal Husband: Second Edition, Revised”, p.30, A&C Black

In married life three is company and two none.

Two, Three, Importance Of Being Earnest

'The Importance of Being Earnest' (1895) act 1

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

Funny, Sarcastic, Money

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

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

Business, Marketing, Too Much

Oscar Wilde (2015). “Essays and Lectures: Top Essays”, p.75, 谷月社

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Writing, Fiction, Painful

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.740, GENERAL PRESS

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

Mean, People, Tragedy

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.40, Wordsworth Editions

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

Europe, America, Forgiven

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.63, University of Chicago Press

Millionaire models are rare enough; but model millionaires are rarer still!

Enough, Millionaire, Models

"Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories".

The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

Shadow, Dawn, Rooms

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.66, Oxford University Press on Demand

Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

Spheres, Different, Importance Of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.47, Heinemann

This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.

Serious, Wonderful, Absurd

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.702, Wordsworth Editions

Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.

Missing, Might, Six

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.711, Wordsworth Editions

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