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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 73

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I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

Regret, Doe, Moments

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.109, Oxford University Press on Demand

this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

Night, Genius

He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

Giving, Misunderstood, Being Misunderstood

Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

Real, World, Goodness

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

Revenge, Mediocrity, World

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.202, Courier Corporation

Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

Romance, Soul, Inheritance

Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Artist As Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.12, Random House

Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.

Platonic Love, Before I Met You, Mets

Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Time, Men, Age

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.145, Oxford Paperbacks

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

Time, Mistake, Parent

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.441, Oxford University Press

Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

Beautiful, Fashion, Being Alone

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1043, GENERAL PRESS

It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

Business, Party, People

I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

Travel, Disappointment, Taken

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

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Change, Reform, Dangerous

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

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

Mean, Interesting, Intellectual

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.190, Courier Corporation

We women adore failures. They lean on us.

Failure, Adore

Oscar Wilde (2015). “A Woman of No Importance”, p.21, Oscar Wilde

The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

Life, Knowing Nothing, Trying

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1488, Delphi Classics

Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

Funny, Sarcastic, Mean

Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

Funny, Sarcastic, Order

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

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

Funny, Sarcastic, People

Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.51, Sheba Blake Publishing

However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

Funny, Sarcastic, Nice

Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.68, Oscar Wilde

You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost

Past, Secret, Doe

Oscar Wilde (2011). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.126, BoD – Books on Demand

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

Artist, Good Art, Delightful

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.217, Oxford University Press on Demand

Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

Finishing, Royal, Artistic

It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.

Future, Past, Miracle

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.107, Courier Corporation

By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

Men, Soul And Body, Void

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