Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 21

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Sleep, Nightmare, Life Is

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• When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, Weather, People

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• We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

  Oscar Wilde

  Trust, Betrayal, Integrity

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1491, Delphi Classics

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• A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Work, Unique

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.270, University of Chicago Press

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• Never buy anything simply because it is expensive.

  Oscar Wilde

  Luck, Expensive

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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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• Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Imitation, Imitating

  Intentions "The Decay of Lying" (1891)

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• Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Attitude, Two

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• Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.

  Oscar Wilde

  Character, Action, Forget

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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 secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

  Oscar Wilde

  Secret, Emotion, Youth

  Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'

  Oscar Wilde

  Meaning Of Life, Life Is, Easy

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• You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the whole of society that I adore you. I wonder you consent to have anything to say to me. I have no character left at all. At least, I feel so happy that I am quite sure I have no character left at all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Silly, Character, London

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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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• Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

  Oscar Wilde

  Vanity, Sin, Vain

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

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• I am happy in my prison of passion

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Prison

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• Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ignorance, Upper Class, Gone

  1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1.

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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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• Everything popular is wrong.

  Oscar Wilde

  Spiritual, Political, Popular Song

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• The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, True Artists, Known

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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• The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dreamer, World, Singers

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “Intentions”, p.103, 1st World Publishing

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• The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

  Oscar Wilde

  Garden, Religion, Stories

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• Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Art, Hurt

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• Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

  Oscar Wilde

  Two, Storm, Way

  'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' (1898) pt. 2, st. 12

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