Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 23

• I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Work, Book

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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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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• I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member

  Oscar Wilde

  Witty, Clubs, Accepting

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• Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Deceiving Others, Romance, World

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• A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Good Night, Dream

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.296, OUP Oxford

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• The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

  Oscar Wilde

  Party, Deception, Charm

  "The Picture of Dorian Gray".

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• She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

  Oscar Wilde

  Clever, Weakness, Charm

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.125, Wordsworth Editions

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• In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Writing

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Poison, Impulse

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• With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

  Oscar Wilde

  Business, White, Ties

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.11, Xist Publishing

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• You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

  Oscar Wilde

  Cigarette Smoke, Perfect, Smoking

  'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891) ch. 6

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• It is always the unreadable that occurs.

  Oscar Wilde

  News

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: +150 Works in 1 eBook”, p.1399, e-artnow

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• To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Being Real

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Government, Ridiculous

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.282, University of Chicago Press

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• The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Ugly

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• Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Modern Life, Elements

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.33, Bibliolis Books

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• Irony is wasted on the stupid

  Oscar Wilde

  Stupid, Irony

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• "I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?" "Yes, darling, with a little help from others."

  Oscar Wilde

  Hair, Curls, Doe

  "The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays".

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• The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

  Oscar Wilde

  Suicide, Artistic Life, Long

  Oscar Wilde (1962). “Letters”

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• The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Obviousness, Ability, Theist

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• It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

  Oscar Wilde

  Personality, Intellectual, Intelligence

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.8, Mondial

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• The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Criticism, Critics

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.176, Wordsworth Editions

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• I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Art, Reality

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.

  Oscar Wilde

  Might

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.19, GENERAL PRESS

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• Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once- But it is no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Past, Love Is

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