Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde: Must we really...

Oscar Wilde: Must we really...

Must we really see Chicago in order to be educated?

Source: Mr. Erskine, in The...

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Oscar Wilde: Questions are never...

Oscar Wilde: Questions are never...

Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.

Source: Mrs. Cheveley, in An...

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Oscar Wilde: Romance should never...

Oscar Wilde: Romance should never...

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a...

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Oscar Wilde: Ah well, I...

Oscar Wilde: Ah well, I...

Ah well, I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.

Source: On being told the...

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Oscar Wilde: The strength of...

Oscar Wilde: The strength of...

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analysed, women. . . merely...

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Oscar Wilde: In the old...

Oscar Wilde: In the old...

In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a...

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Oscar Wilde: He thinks like...

Oscar Wilde: He thinks like...

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

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Oscar Wilde: The stage is...

Oscar Wilde: The stage is...

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to...

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Oscar Wilde: To make a...

Oscar Wilde: To make a...

To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist -- the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know...

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Oscar Wilde: A poet can...

Oscar Wilde: A poet can...

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Source: Pall Mall Gazette (London,...

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Oscar Wilde: Work is the...

Oscar Wilde: Work is the...

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Source: Quoted in: Hesketh Pearson, Life...

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Oscar Wilde: Those who see...

Oscar Wilde: Those who see...

Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither.

Source: Phrases...

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Oscar Wilde: A truth ceases...

Oscar Wilde: A truth ceases...

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

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Oscar Wilde: While we look...

Oscar Wilde: While we look...

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to...

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Oscar Wilde: It is only...

Oscar Wilde: It is only...

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial...

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Oscar Wilde: Tread lightly, she...

Oscar Wilde: Tread lightly, she...

Tread lightly, she is near
Under the snow,
Speak gently, she can hear
The daisies...

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Oscar Wilde: Personality must be...

Oscar Wilde: Personality must be...

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not...

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Oscar Wilde: In his very...

Oscar Wilde: In his very...

In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he...

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Oscar Wilde: I don't like...

Oscar Wilde: I don't like...

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

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Oscar Wilde: To have friends,...

Oscar Wilde: To have friends,...

To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something...

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