Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 66

• It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Women, Stupid

  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.61, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Corn, Toes

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.355, Wordsworth Editions

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• Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Nature, Voice

  Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.

  Oscar Wilde

  Russia, Reform, Farce

  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.570, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Political, Lasts

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1034, GENERAL PRESS

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• Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

  Oscar Wilde

  Monsters, Unfair, Mets

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

  Oscar Wilde

  Night, Thinking, Ideas

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• Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Clothes, House

  Oscar Wilde “The Importance of Being Earnest”, BoD - Books on Demand

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• Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Praying, Produce, Explanation

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.14

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• Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Feet, Long

  Oscar Wilde, “The Harlot's House”

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• And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Sky, Rose

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.330, Wordsworth Editions

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• The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us. In some tiny ivory cell the brain stores the most delicate, and the most fleeting impressions.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Flower, Passion

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• My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly! You didn't know it then-you know it now.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love You, Moments, I Loved You

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.506, Wordsworth Editions

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• Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, Men, Civilization

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.229, Diversion Books

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• And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sweet, Heart, Wine

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.154, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Memories, Passion

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• With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

  Oscar Wilde

  Strong, Passion, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.219, Diversion Books

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• The supreme vice is shallowness.

  Oscar Wilde

  Vices, Supreme, Shallowness

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.99, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hands, Verbs, Lord Henry

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.40, Prestwick House Inc

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• Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stars, Flower, Moon

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.205, Wordsworth Editions

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• How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June… . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that—for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!

  Oscar Wilde

  Eye, June, Giving

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 2 (1891)

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• I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

  Oscar Wilde

  Jealous, Giving, Portraits

  Oscar Wilde (2017). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (English French Edition illustrated): Le Portrait de Dorian Gray (Anglais Français édition illustré)”, p.61, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Depressing, Real, Modern Life

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.34, Diversion Books

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• When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Prayer, Children

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.

  Oscar Wilde

  Summer, Home, Heart

  Oscar Wilde (1961). “DE PROFUNDIS”, p.10, VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS

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