Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 75

• Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

  Oscar Wilde

  Speak, Should, Know How

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

  Oscar Wilde

  Attitude, Enough, Immoral

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.22, Xist Publishing

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• JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

  Oscar Wilde

  Gentleman, Degrees, Pleasure

  Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.38, Heinemann

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• Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pay, Compliment, Pleasant

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.166, Wordsworth Editions

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• God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

  Oscar Wilde

  Plato, Men, Oxford

  "In Victorian Days and Other Papers" by Sir David Oswald Hunter-Blair, New York: Longmans, (p. 122), 1939.

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• We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Mother, Fire

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.152, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

  Oscar Wilde

  Education, Squares, Class

  Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.16, Heinemann

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• The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

  Oscar Wilde

  Drama, Play, Literature

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.70, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Country, Fall

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

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