Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 49

• How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

  Oscar Wilde

  Sad, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 5, st. 14 (1898)

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• There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

  Oscar Wilde

  Authority, Monarchs

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.62, Oscar Wilde

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• There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, People, Stupidity

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.7, Oscar Wilde

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• If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Differences, Three, Obscurity

  Oscar Wilde, Richard Butler Glaenzer (1906). “Decorative Art in America: A Lecture, Together with Letters, Reviews and Interviews. Edited, with an Introd. by Richard Butler Glaenzer”

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• Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

  Oscar Wilde

  Congratulations, St Francis Of Assisi, Poverty

  Oscar Wilde (1962). “The letters of Oscar Wilde”

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• There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Moments, Has Beens

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• If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mines, Ifs, I Can

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• From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Views, Genius

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1012, Wordsworth Editions

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• Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Passion, Joy

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• An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Theatre, Actors

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• I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Unbearable

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

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• I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hate, Men, Use

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.212, Diversion Books

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• Well, I can’t help going to see Sibyl play, even if it is only for an act. I get hungry for her presence; and when I think of the wonderful soul that is hidden away in that little ivory body, I am filled with awe." "You can dine with me to-night, Dorian, can’t you?" He shook his head. "To night she is Imogen," he answered, "and tomorrow night she will be Juliet." "When is she Sibyl Vane?" "Never." "I congratulate you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Night, Thinking, Play

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.40, Wordsworth Editions

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• Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Dorian Grey, Portrait Of Dorian Gray

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.336, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fairness, Apologizing, Modern

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.21, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Everyone should keep someone else's diary.

  Oscar Wilde

  Diaries, Should

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Individual, States

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Miscellaneous Aphorisms: The Soul of Man”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

  Oscar Wilde

  Luxury, God Bless, Can Do

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• To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, Men, Enemy

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.23, Wordsworth Editions

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• As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mad, Curiosity, Looks

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.36, Wordsworth Editions

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• And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

  Oscar Wilde

  Winning, Games, Play

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.379, GENERAL PRESS

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• Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Men, Legacy

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Miscellaneous Aphorisms: The Soul of Man”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Business, Marketing, Too Much

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Essays and Lectures: Top Essays”, p.75, 谷月社

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• Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Fiction, Painful

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.740, GENERAL PRESS

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• There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, People, Tragedy

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.40, Wordsworth Editions

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