Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 69

• 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?

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  Oboes, Hell

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

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  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.

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  Essence, Greek, Dresses

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

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• He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in the summer when we want something to chill our intelligence.

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  Beautiful, Summer, Flower

  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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• They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

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  Wise, Understanding, Looks

  "The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays".

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• You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

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  Girl, Daughter, Dream

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.39

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• Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.

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  Dream, Pain, Glasses

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.37, Mondial

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• Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

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  Book, Names, Common Sense

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.73, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Prism! Where is that baby?

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  Baby, Prisms

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.534, OUP Oxford

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• Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!" "I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing." "That may be, but the muffins are the same!

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  Men, Garden, Heaven

  Oscar Wilde (1956). “Annotated The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People with English Grammar Exercises: by Oscar Wilde (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.72, Powell Publications, LLC

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• ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.

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  Girl, Admiration, Mets

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.14, Xist Publishing

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• In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

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  Thinking, Proud, Way

  Oscar Wilde (1898). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.63, Orchises Press

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• I find I have, and a heart doesn’t suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn’t go with modern dress. It makes one look old.

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  Heart, Dresses, Looks

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Lady Windermere's Fan”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

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  Picture Of Dorian Gray, Destroyed

  Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.222, Harvard University Press

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• I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.

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  Too Much, Gray, Dorian Grey

  Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

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  Soul, Tragedy, Body

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.548, Wordsworth Editions

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• What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.

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  Progress, Essentials, Elements

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.672, GENERAL PRESS

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• He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.

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  Love Is, Stronger, Life Is

  Oscar Wilde (2009). “The Happy Prince and Other Stories”, p.296, Collector's Library

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• Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

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  Courage, Giving, Temptation

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• History is merely gossip

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  Gossip

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.9, Oscar Wilde

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• Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

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  Art, School, Taste

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.28, University of Chicago Press

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• In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

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  Civilization, America, Poverty

  Oscar Wilde, Lady Wilde (1909). “Epigrams: Oscariana; Sebastian Melmoth; Phrases and philosophies; Oscar Wilde's literary art; Correspondence; Impressions of America, with an introduction by Stuart Mason; Oscar Wilde in America”

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