Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 20

• Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Sorrow, May

  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 one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Men, Action

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1466, Delphi Classics

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• If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  1895 Mrs Cheveley speaking. An Ideal Husband, act 3.

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• Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

  Oscar Wilde

  Football, Games, Gentleman

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• One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Witty, Heart, Laughing

  Quoted in Letters to the Sphinx from Oscar Wilde (1930)

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• I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Genius, Talent

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• The moon in her chariot of pearl

  Oscar Wilde

  Moon, Pearls, Chariots

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Short Stories”, p.357, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Business, Work

  "Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde".

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• Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Independent Women

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Woman of No Importance”, p.50, Trajectory Inc

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• I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

  Oscar Wilde

  Twenties, Shade, Nine

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.257, Delphi Classics

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• Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sleep, Nightmare, Life Is

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• A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

  Oscar Wilde

  Add, Examining, Worth Living

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• It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Ugly, Faces

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Obvious

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

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• Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

  Oscar Wilde

  Perfection, Way, Said

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• The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Secret, Attention

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.30, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love You, Passion, Men

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• No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Views, People

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.438, University of Chicago Press

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• One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

  Oscar Wilde

  Past, Details, Remember

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.65, Mondial

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• He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Friendship, Sarcastic

  "The Works of Oscar Wilde".

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• It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Perfection, Perfectionist

  1891 Intentions, 'The Critic as Artist'.

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• An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

  Oscar Wilde

  Food, Adventure, Eggs

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• The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

  Oscar Wilde

  Liars, Giving, Delight

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.305, University of Chicago Press

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• I am happy in my prison of passion

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Prison

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• I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

  Oscar Wilde

  Animal, Men, Definitions

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 2 (1891)

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