Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• 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.

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  Art, Men, Machines

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

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• There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Humor, Things In Life

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 1 (1891) See Behan 3; Modern Proverbs 71

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• The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

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  Wisdom, Knowing, People

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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  Self, Luxury, Blame

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 8 (1891)

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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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• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Sad, Beautiful

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde

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• Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

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  Men, Laughing, Humanity

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Short Stories”, p.53, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mistake, Names, Giving

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• Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

  Oscar Wilde

  Courage, Betrayal, Kissing

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 1, st. 7 (1898) See Roberts 1

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• If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

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  Funny, Truth, Inspiration

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.197, Wordsworth Editions

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• One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

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  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Truth

  'A Woman of No Importance' (1893) act 1

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• Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

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  Beautiful, Education, Children

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• Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.

  Oscar Wilde

  Doe, Prejudice, Spirit

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• It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

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  Keeping Secrets, Giving, Guilt

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 8 (1891)

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• The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, War, Jealous

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Essential Oscar Wilde”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

  Oscar Wilde

  Drinking, Irish Drinking

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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• Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.

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  Friendship, Never Forget, Wonderful

  Oscar Wilde (2001). “The Devoted Friend”, p.9, Electric Book Company

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• It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fashion, Clothes, Modern

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.816, GENERAL PRESS

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• I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

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  Stupid, Simple, People

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.191, Courier Corporation

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• sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

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  Hands, Sorrow, Wounds

  Oscar Wilde (1961). “DE PROFUNDIS”, p.7, VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS

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• Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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  Reading, Culture, Half

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.10

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• The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

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  Future, Artist, Past

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.

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  Faithful, Belief

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.70, Prestwick House Inc

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• I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.

  Oscar Wilde

  Calling, Half, Firsts

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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