Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 68

• Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Loneliness, Vision

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The critic as artist (low cost). Limited edition”, p.54, Oscar Wilde

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• Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Education, Children

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.11, University of Chicago Press

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• Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

  Oscar Wilde

  Brother, Men, Bars

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.213, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Play, Ease

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.133, GENERAL PRESS

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• Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sides, Sincerity, Bores

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.9, OUP Oxford

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• There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, America, Lovely

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.7, University of Chicago Press

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• It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dog, Artist, Tragedy

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.824, GENERAL PRESS

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• Liberty is the chosen
  resort of the artistic
  shopper.

  Oscar Wilde

  Liberty, Artistic, Resorts

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• Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy
  Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.

  Oscar Wilde

  Chrysanthemums, Gilded, Merchandise

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• The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me

  Oscar Wilde

  Quoting

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• She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, Dust, Earth

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• Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!

  Oscar Wilde

  Nudity, Adam, Adam And Eve

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• Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)

  Oscar Wilde

  Saws

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• All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?

  Oscar Wilde

  Love Is, Truth Is

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• Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

  Oscar Wilde

  Philosophy, Normal, Matchboxes

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• Education is an admirable thing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Admirable

  Epigrams: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young Sebastian Melmoth

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• Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.

  Oscar Wilde

  Car, Buffets, Next

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• Life is like a box of terrible analogies.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life Is Like, Analogies, Boxes

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• What the hell is an oboe?

  Oscar Wilde

  Oboes, Hell

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• An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Opinion, Willing, Willing To Die

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• The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

  Oscar Wilde

  Age, Anachronism

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.201, Wordsworth Editions

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• Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

  Oscar Wilde

  Essence, Greek, Dresses

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.150, Wordsworth Editions

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• The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Class, Criminals, Policemen

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1670, Delphi Classics

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• I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

  Oscar Wilde

  Phrases, Existence, Epigrams

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sick, Dying, Dry

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