Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 10

• I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

  Oscar Wilde

  Witty, Clever, Humorous

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.652, Wordsworth Editions

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• One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Doe, Ideal Husband

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.937, Wordsworth Editions

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• I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

  Oscar Wilde

  Law, Made, Exception

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.712, GENERAL PRESS

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• They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thinking, Up Early, Bed

  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.315, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Art only begins where Imitation ends.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Imitation, Ends

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.126, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.

  Oscar Wilde

  Good Night, Dream, Punishment

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.296, OUP Oxford

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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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• We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wisdom, Fun, People

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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• One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.187, Penguin

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• I drink to separate my body from my soul.

  Oscar Wilde

  Soul, Body, Drink

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• Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

  Oscar Wilde

  Self Esteem, World, Antiques

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.305, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

  Oscar Wilde

  Rainy Day, Weather, Lasts

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• Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life Is, Should

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “A Woman of No Importance”, p.7, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Life is too short to be in a hurry.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life Is Too Short, Life Is, Too Short

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• I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

  Oscar Wilde

  Wall, Talking, World

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Lady Windermere's Fan”, p.58, Oscar Wilde

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• I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Beautiful, Ugly Things

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• It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

  Oscar Wilde

  Nature, Looks, Littles

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.735, GENERAL PRESS

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• Hatred is blind, as well as love.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Witty

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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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• The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Lying, Men

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• Don't feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fuel, Troll, Internet

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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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• Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Witty

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

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• It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wisdom, Book, Reading

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• The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

  Oscar Wilde

  Yield, Law, Sick

  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.21, Oxford University Press on Demand

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