Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 20

• There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Sympathy, Pain

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.51, First Avenue Editions

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• The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, College, Important

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Reviews”, p.602, Oscar Wilde

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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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• Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sympathy, Grief, Condolences

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  'Sebastian Melmoth' (1905) p. 12. Oscariana (1910) p. 8

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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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• 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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• America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

  Oscar Wilde

  Discovery, America, Columbus

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

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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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• I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, People, Listening

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.201, Courier Corporation

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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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• Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Marriage, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• 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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• Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sleep, Nightmare, Life Is

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• Men become old, but they never become good.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Philosophy, Dark Water

  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.25, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Mean, Men

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• Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Soccer, Football

  Quoted in Alvin Redman The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde (1952).

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• Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

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