Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 13

• Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.39, Wordsworth Editions

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• Where there is no love there is no understanding.

  Oscar Wilde

  Understanding, Extravagance, No Love

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Reviews”, p.596, Oscar Wilde

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• For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.

  Oscar Wilde

  Soul, Moments, Mets

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.188, Wordsworth Editions

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• After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

  Oscar Wilde

  Family, Thanksgiving, Food

  1893 Lady Caroline. A Woman of No Importance, act 2.

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• What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Reputation, Said

  Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.102, Wordsworth Editions

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• Every woman is a rebel.

  Oscar Wilde

  Rebel

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions

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• Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sad, Stars, Pain

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• I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

  Oscar Wilde

  Knowing, Giving, Misunderstood

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.971, Wordsworth Editions

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• When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Cheer, Laughter

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.56, Wordsworth Editions

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• we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

  Oscar Wilde

  Misunderstood, Understood

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.72, First Avenue Editions

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• It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

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  Regret, Loss, Sin

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• Most people are other people.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Existential

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it

  Oscar Wilde

  Ifs

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• I'm too old to know everything

  Oscar Wilde

  Knows

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• Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Sight, Enough

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• Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

  Oscar Wilde

  Attitude, Belief, Shallow

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.18, New Line Publishing

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• Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

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  Beauty, Creeds, Harm

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1594, Delphi Classics

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• You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Unseen, Beauty Of Life, Higher

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.131, Penguin

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• My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect---simply a confession of failures. Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. But I don't want to interrupt you. Go on with your story.

  Oscar Wilde

  Loyalty, Passion, Boys

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.48, Prestwick House Inc

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• The only real people are the people who never existed.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, People

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.51, Courier Corporation

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• You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

  Oscar Wilde

  Humility, Thinking, Want

  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.24, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Business, Acting

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.755, GENERAL PRESS

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• The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love Is, Aim

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• Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ideas, Public Opinion, Opinion

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

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• Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

  Oscar Wilde

  Death, Wine, Mean

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