Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 11

• Those whom the gods love grow young.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Birthday, Time

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.167, Wordsworth Editions

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• To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Simplicity, Lazy

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.996, Wordsworth Editions

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• Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Good Life, Sometimes

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• Only the shallow know themselves.

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  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.209, Courier Corporation

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• But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

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  Memories, Passion, Yield

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.29, Prestwick House Inc

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• The curves of your lips rewrite history.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Curves, Lips

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.152, Wordsworth Editions

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• Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Anger

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

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• The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Yoga

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.572, Oxford Paperbacks

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• The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

  Oscar Wilde

  Kissing, Hands, Sick

  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.150, OUP Oxford

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• Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

  Oscar Wilde

  Prayer, Correspondence, Ifs

  Quoted in Laurence Housman, Echo de Paris (1923)

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• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895). The same lines appear, as a dialogue between Lord Illingworth and Mrs. Allonby, in A Woman of No Importance, act 2 (1893).

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• Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

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  Taken, Love Is, Kneeling

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.181, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Love Is

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “SALOM: A TRAGEDY IN ONE ACT”, p.111, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Doe, I Have Learned, Consequence

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• Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

  Oscar Wilde

  Luxury, Let Me, Can Do

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• The best people to work for are me, myself and I.

  Oscar Wilde

  People

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• A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

  Oscar Wilde

  Selfish, Flower, Garden

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde

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• They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Life, Sex

  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.27, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.

  Oscar Wilde

  Civilization, Class, People

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1044, Wordsworth Editions

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• Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. It seeks to show new perspectives and other choices. It is a way to help expand and liberate the consciousness; our experiences, understandings, imaginings, options and thereby our lives.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Lying, Men

  "The Soul of Man under Socialism". Book by Oscar Wilde, 1891.

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• A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Feeling Sad, Sorrow

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.119, Diversion Books

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• I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.

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  Sorrow, Might, Helping

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.1766, e-artnow

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• Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sarcastic, Sex, Women

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.22, Wordsworth Editions

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• Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

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  Art, Serious Person, Serious Things

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1670, Delphi Classics

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• If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Heart, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.136, Mondial

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