Oscar Wilde Quotes about Listening

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Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar.

Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

Oscar Wilde

Giving, Ignorant, Listening

Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.28, Prestwick House Inc

I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

Oscar Wilde

Beautiful, People, Listening

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.201, Courier Corporation

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

Oscar Wilde

Giving, Ignorant, Listening

Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.28, Prestwick House Inc

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.

Oscar Wilde

Intellectual, Listening, Degenerates

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