Oscar Wilde quotes - page 45

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone. (Oscar Wilde)

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

Oscar Wilde

In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

Oscar Wilde

The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.

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Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .

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You are young. No hungry generations tread you down.... The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost...

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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

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American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

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You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest. (Oscar Wilde)

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

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Oscar Wilde

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

Oscar Wilde

I don't like Switzerland it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

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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)

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

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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.

Oscar Wilde

Civilisation is not by any 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

Authority is quite degrading.

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Oscar Wilde

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Occupation: Irish Poet
Born: October 16, 1854
Died: November 30, 1900
Quotes count: 1196
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