Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Irish writer

Lived from: 1854 - 1900

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagIreland

Born: 16 october 1854 Died: 30 november 1900

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  • It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
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  • It is personalities, not principles, that move the age
    The picture of Dorian Gray (1891) H. 3
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  • It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
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  • It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
    The Critic as Artist (1891)
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  • It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
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  • It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
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  • It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
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  • It's absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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  • Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
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  • Journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.
    The Critic as Artist (1891)
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  • Just as those who do not love Plato more than truth cannot pass beyond the threshold of Academe, so those who do not love beauty more than truth never know the inmost shrine of art.
    The Decay of Lying (1889)
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  • Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
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  • Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray
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  • Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
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  • Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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  • Life is too important to be taken seriously.
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  • Life would be dull without them.
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  • Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic
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  • Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
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  • Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.
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