Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 67

• The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to solve no social problem, and busied itself not about such things, but suffered the individual to develop freely, beautifully, and naturally, and so had great and individual artists, and great, individual men. One might point out how Louis XIV, by creating the modern state, destroyed the individualism of the artist.

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  Artist, Men, Creating

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• The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

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  Funny, Money, Extravagance

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions

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• The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

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  Art, Reality, Creative

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• Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.

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  Laughter, Emo, Lips

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.73, Diversion Books

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• It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

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  Mother, America, Insulting

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.55, BoD – Books on Demand

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• In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

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  Beautiful, Men, Rights

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1583, Delphi Classics

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• I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.

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  Believe, Tea, Clock

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

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  Joy, Pleasure, Cruelty

  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.105, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

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  Grief, Suffering, Sorrow

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

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• Life would be dull without them.

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  Mistake, Would Be, Dull

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• Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD.

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  Life, Thinking, Lds

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• There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

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  Work, Men, Numbers

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.437, University of Chicago Press

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• Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.

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  Life, Moments, Made

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.237, Wordsworth Editions

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• Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

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  Class, Judging, Judgement

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

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  Memories, People, Done

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.341, University of Chicago Press

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• One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

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  Giving, Luck, Age

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• Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.

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  Marriage, America, Now And Then

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.94, Wordsworth Editions

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• Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

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  Husband, Women, Grief

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 15 (1891). A similar quotation appears inWilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1 (1895).

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• All art is at once surface and symbol.

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  Art, Peril, Beneath The Surface

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.6, First Avenue Editions

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• Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!

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  Pun

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• The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

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  Feelings, Inferiority, Consciousness

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.356, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

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  Order, Evil, Use

  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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• Music is the perfect type of art.

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  Music, Art, Perfect

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.265, Oxford University Press

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• It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

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  Art, Expression, May

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• Art, like Nature, has her monsters

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  Art, Monsters

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

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