Top 25 Quotes by Oscar Wilde of 1859 - Page 24

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

Oscar Wilde

Drama, Genius, Talent

Quoted in Andre Gide, Letter to his mother, 30 Jan. 1895

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

Oscar Wilde

Quoted in Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions (1916)

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

Oscar Wilde

Secret, Life Is, Great Experiences

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.125, Mondial

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Oscar Wilde

Funny, Birthday, Friends

1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 3.

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

Oscar Wilde

Youth, Folly, Repeats

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.47, Diversion Books

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Oscar Wilde

Funny, Sarcastic, Breakfast Food

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.15, Oscar Wilde

The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

Mistake, Names, Giving

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

Oscar Wilde

Fashion, Clothes, Modern

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.816, GENERAL PRESS

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

Oscar Wilde

Love, Inspirational, Men

"Two Society Comedies".

I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

Oscar Wilde

People, Common, Charming

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.90, First Avenue Editions

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

Oscar Wilde

Vulgarity Is, Crime, Vulgar

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.114, Courier Corporation

I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

Oscar Wilde

Stupid, Simple, People

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.191, Courier Corporation

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

Oscar Wilde

Courage, Betrayal, Kissing

The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 1, st. 7 (1898) See Roberts 1

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

Oscar Wilde

Perfect, Personality, Rebellion

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1038, GENERAL PRESS

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

Oscar Wilde

Artist, Feelings, Portraits

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.7, Oxford University Press on Demand