Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 27

• Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P

  Oscar Wilde

  Common Sense, Romance, Enemy

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• Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it

  Oscar Wilde

  Fruitcake, Want

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• Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Important, Engagement

  Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.30, Heinemann

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• It was only in the theatre that I lived

  Oscar Wilde

  Theatre

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.71, GENERAL PRESS

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• The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

  Oscar Wilde

  Prayer, Government, Differences

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• If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times

  Oscar Wilde

  Witty, Thinking, Want

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• I can resist everything except temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 1 (1892) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Mae West 19; Wilde 25

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• Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Breakfast Food

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.15, Oscar Wilde

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• The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Men, Suffering

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.365, GENERAL PRESS

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• Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love Life, Giving, Lovely

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• The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Perfection, Laziness, Youth

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.166, Wordsworth Editions

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• Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Temptation, Be Good

  'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891) ch. 19

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• She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, America, Secret

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

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• Only good questions deserve good answers.

  Oscar Wilde

  Good Questions, Answers, Deserve

  "De Profundis". Book by Oscar Wilde, 1897.

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• It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.

  Oscar Wilde

  Perfect, Needs, Ideal Husband

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.213, Penguin

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• Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Change, Beautiful, Art

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.285, OUP Oxford

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• The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Political, World

  1893 Lord Illingworth. A Woman of No Importance, act 3.

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• Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Resemblance Is, Perfection

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.313, Penguin

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• Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

  Oscar Wilde

  Tests, Approval, Pleasure

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.56, Wordsworth Editions

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• To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

  Oscar Wilde

  Food, Oil, Cooking

  1880 Vera, or The Nihilists, act 2.

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• Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Mistake, Writing

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 4 (1891). A similar quotation occurs inWilde's play LadyWindermere's Fan, act 3 (1892).

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• I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

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  People, Common, Charming

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.90, First Avenue Editions

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• Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

  Oscar Wilde

  Common Sense, Imagination, Common

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.32, Wordsworth Editions

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• Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Diaries, Chronicles

  "Epigrams & Aphorisms".

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• He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Humor, Enemy

  Shaw 'Sixteen Self Sketches' ch. 17

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