Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 24

• After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mourning, Tragedy, Sin

  1891 Intentions, 'The Critic as Artist'.

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• Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

  Oscar Wilde

  Answers, Sometimes, Ideal Husband

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.11, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Suffering, Littles

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “The Happy Prince and Other Tales: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Absurd, Cynic

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• I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life Worth Living, Astonishing, Worth Living

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.64, Wordsworth Editions

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• Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Wedding

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.37, Lulu Press, Inc

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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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• My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Sweet, Nice

  Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.21, Heinemann

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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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• One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Judging, Effects

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.165, Diversion Books

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• The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

  Oscar Wilde

  Flower, Garden, Bird

  Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.151, Harvard University Press

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• She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.

  Oscar Wilde

  Laughter, Pain, Passion

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.49, GENERAL PRESS

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• Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Birthday, Friends

  1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 3.

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• Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

  Oscar Wilde

  Drama, Genius, Talent

  Quoted in Andre Gide, Letter to his mother, 30 Jan. 1895

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• Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcasm, Piano Music

  Impressions of America (1906). The Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate, 20 Apr. 1883, describes an afterdinner speech made by Wilde in Paris about his experiences in the United States: "The brightest and best of the many stories he related was one to the effect that at a ball in Leadville he saw a notice over the piano which read: 'Please don't shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.' "

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• Art persists, it timelessly continues.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Persist

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• Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Communication, Should, Conversation

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Critic as Artist (Upon the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything)”, p.57, Mondial

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• We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

  Oscar Wilde

  Secret, Life Is, Great Experiences

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.125, Mondial

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• No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Censorship, Survived

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.42, Wordsworth Editions

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• Even things that are true can be proved.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ironic, Irony

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

  Oscar Wilde

  Perfect, Personality, Rebellion

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1038, GENERAL PRESS

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• What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Men, Machines

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Soul of Man under Socialism”, p.24, Oscar Wilde

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• Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Art, Mean

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• The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Useless Things, Excuse

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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