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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 72

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Punctuality is the thief of time

Punctuality is the thief of time

Time, Work, Lying

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.222, Wordsworth Editions

To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

Eye, Land, Safety

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.62, Wordsworth Editions

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

Real, Night, Shadow

When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349

Lying, Heart, Knives

Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.

Men, Oscars, Suing

And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

Healing, Blood, Hands

Oscar Wilde (2015). “Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde”, p.24, Oscar Wilde

Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.

Black, Grass, Insects

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.737, GENERAL PRESS

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Art, Mirrors, Beneath The Surface

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.428, Oxford University Press on Demand

Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was... [makes gestures] Jack: an ordinary handbag.

Ordinary, Handbags, Gestures

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

Queens, Way, Treats

She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.

Lost

"The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories".

But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

Wicked, World, Next

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

Victory, Defeat, Knows

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.5, Oxford University Press on Demand

The weather still continues charming.

Weather, Charming, Stills

Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.90

Conscience makes egotists of us all.

Conscience

by Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, Lulu.com

LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.

Men, Years, Silent Man

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.115, OUP Oxford

It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

Love You, Needs

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.582, Wordsworth Editions

Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.

Aunt, Two, Feelings

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.11, Xist Publishing

No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

Memories, Should Have, Should

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1133, GENERAL PRESS

Only love can keep anyone alive.

Alive, Only Love

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.582, Wordsworth Editions

How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!

Love You, Long

Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.202, Wordsworth Editions

And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

Winter, Garden, Wind

Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.812, e-artnow

I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

People, Favour, Importance Of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde (1984). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.33, Dramatic Publishing

memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

Memories, Soul, Eating

Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.209, Lulu Press, Inc

Requiescat Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. All her bright golden hair Tarnished with rust, She that was young and fair Fallen to dust. Lily-like, white as snow, She hardly knew She was a woman, so Sweetly she grew. Coffin-board, heavy stone, Lie on her breast, I vex my heart alone She is at rest. Peace, Peace, she cannot hear Lyre or sonnet, All my life’s buried here, Heap earth upon it.

Lying, Heart, White

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.5, Oxford University Press on Demand

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