Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 14

• The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

  Oscar Wilde

  Character, Simplicity

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.380, Wordsworth Editions

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• If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.

  Oscar Wilde

  Prayer, Would Be, Needs

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• Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Work

  Quoted in Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions (1916)

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• The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Husband, Fear

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.113, Mondial

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• I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Rain, Thinking, Fire

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “The Duchess of Padua: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.39, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

  Oscar Wilde

  Intellectual, Facts, Truth Is

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.200, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• Hearts Live By Being Wounded

  Oscar Wilde

  Best Friend, Broken Heart, Losing Friends

  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.151, Oxford Paperbacks

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Love Is, Aim

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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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• Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mistake, Character, Past

  Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Penny Dreadfuls: Tales of Horror: Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.719, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Long, Secret

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.212, Wordsworth Editions

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• Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.

  Oscar Wilde

  Regret, Fall, Light

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• The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Progress, Evolution Of Man

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1065, Wordsworth Editions

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• We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspiration, Greek, Achieve

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• Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wine, Pleasure, Champagne

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• We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Wise, Thinking

  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.256, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

  Oscar Wilde

  Style, Succeed, Obscure

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Relationship

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “Epigrams & Aphorisms”, p.56, BoD – Books on Demand

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• As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

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  Funny, Humor, Punishment

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.50, Oscar Wilde

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• Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Depressing, Reality

  "The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde".

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• Where your life leads you, you must go

  Oscar Wilde

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• I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Hundred, Five

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• One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Years, Sometimes

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.46, Wordsworth Editions

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• One should always be in love.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart

  "Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations".

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