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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 24

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I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

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

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

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

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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

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

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

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

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

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

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

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

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, 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

It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.213, Penguin

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.64, First Avenue Editions

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.11, Sheba Blake Publishing

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

Oscar Wilde (2011). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.67, BoD – Books on Demand

There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.166, Courier Corporation

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.266, Wordsworth Editions

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

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.104, Wordsworth Editions