Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 53

• George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Brilliant, Grammar

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• It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Wilde Complete Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Woman of No Importance; Salome; The Duchess of Padua; Vera, or the Nihilists; A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane”, p.137, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Men, People

  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.192, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won't want to know Bunbury. ALGERNON Then your wife will. You don't seem to realize, that in married life three is company and two is none. JACK That, my dear young friend, is the theory that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last fifty years. ALGERNON Yes; and that the happy English home has proved in half the time.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Drama, Home

  Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.259, Oxford Paperbacks

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• And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

  Oscar Wilde

  Winter, Garden, Wind

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.812, e-artnow

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• He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Silence, Moments, Psychological

  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.184, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

  Oscar Wilde

  Interesting, People, Speech

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.659, GENERAL PRESS

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• Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pertinent Questions, May, Firsts

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• Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Personality, Important, Looks

  Oscar Wilde (2009). “The Happy Prince and Other Stories”, p.84, Collector's Library

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• I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

  Oscar Wilde

  Clever, Temptation, Resistance

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• Authority is quite degrading.

  Oscar Wilde

  Authority, Degrading

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

  Oscar Wilde

  Law, Practice, Sublime

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• Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

  Oscar Wilde

  Drunk, Poetry, Personality

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• At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

  Oscar Wilde

  Twilight, Book, Beer

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.239, OUP Oxford

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• this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

  Oscar Wilde

  Night, Genius

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• He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving, Misunderstood, Being Misunderstood

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

  Oscar Wilde

  Revenge, Mediocrity, World

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.202, Courier Corporation

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• Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

  Oscar Wilde

  Vulgarity Is, People, Ideal Husband

  Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.212, Oxford Paperbacks

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• But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Expression, Intellectual

  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.170, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stupid, Race, Mind

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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• Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Intellectual, Trying

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.692, GENERAL PRESS

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• All criticism is a form of autobiography

  Oscar Wilde

  Criticism, Form, Autobiography

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• Nature is always behind the age

  Oscar Wilde

  Age, Behinds

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.223, Oxford University Press

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• Industry is the root of all ugliness.

  Oscar Wilde

  Roots, Industry, Ugliness

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ornaments, Oratory

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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