Oscar Wilde quotes - page 39

The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passions are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to be paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine. (Oscar Wilde)
The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it. View quote
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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes. View quote
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The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality. View quote
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The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her. View quote
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But beauty, real beauty, ends where all intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes al nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think. View quote
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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing. View quote
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People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity. View quote
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He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. View quote
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It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless. View quote
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If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream. (Oscar Wilde)
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. View quote
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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. View quote
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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. View quote
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Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there. View quote
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Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important. View quote
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Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor. View quote
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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. View quote
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Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find an expression for joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy. View quote
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Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best. View quote
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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. (Oscar Wilde)
Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there. View quote
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In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself. View quote
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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life. View quote
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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach. View quote
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