Oscar Wilde Quotes 151–180 of 310 Quotes
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“I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.”
— Oscar Wilde
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Quote source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) Mrs. Erlynne, Act IV
“What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.”
— Oscar Wilde
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Quote source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) Lady Windermere, Act IV
“The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.”
— Oscar Wilde
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Quote source: A Woman of No Importance (1893) Kelvil, Act I
“Mrs. Allonby: They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris. Lady Hunstanton: Indeed? And when bad Americans die, where do they go to? Lord Illingworth: Oh, they go to America.”
— Oscar Wilde
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Quote source: A Woman of No Importance (1893) Act I
“The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.”
— Oscar Wilde
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Quote source: A Woman of No Importance (1893) Lord Illingworth, Act I
“The English country gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.”
— Oscar Wilde
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Quote source: A Woman of No Importance (1893) Lord Illingworth, Act I
“Kelvil: May I ask, Lord Illingworth, if you regard the House of Lords as a better institution than the House of Commons? Lord Illingworth: A much better institution of course. We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.”
— Oscar Wilde
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Quote source: A Woman of No Importance (1893) Act I
“Lord Illingworth: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. Mrs. Allonby: It ends with Revelations.”
— Oscar Wilde
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Quote source: A Woman of No Importance (1893) Act I
“Lady Hunstanton: But do you believe all that is written in the newspapers? Lord Illingworth: I do. Nowadays it is only the unreadable that occurs.”
— Oscar Wilde
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Quote source: A Woman of No Importance (1893) Act I
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“Lord Illingworth: Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”
— Oscar Wilde
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Quote source: A Woman of No Importance (1893) Act II
“Gerald: I suppose society is wonderfully delightful? Lord Illingworth: To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it simply a tragedy.”
— Oscar Wilde
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Quote source: A Woman of No Importance (1893) Act III
“Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.”
— Oscar Wilde
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Quote source: A Woman of No Importance (1893) Lord Illingworth, Act III
“I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.”
— Oscar Wilde
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Quote source: A Woman of No Importance (1893) Lord Illingworth, Act III
“Moderation is a fatal thing, Lady Hunstanton. Nothing succeeds like excess.”
— Oscar Wilde
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Quote source: A Woman of No Importance (1893) Lord Illingworth, Act III
“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”
— Oscar Wilde
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Quote source: A Woman of No Importance (1893) Lord Illingworth, Act III
“Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.”
— Oscar Wilde
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Quote source: A Woman of No Importance (1893) Mrs. Arbuthnot, Act IV
“Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
— Oscar Wilde
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“The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.”
— Oscar Wilde
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“The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.”
— Oscar Wilde
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“In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.”
— Oscar Wilde
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“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”
— Oscar Wilde
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“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”
— Oscar Wilde
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“To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.”
— Oscar Wilde
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“Even the disciple has his uses. He stands behind one's throne, and at the moment of one's triumph whispers in one's ear that, after all, one is immortal.”
— Oscar Wilde
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“The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being rich is economy.”
— Oscar Wilde
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“Those whom the gods love grow young.”
— Oscar Wilde
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First published anonymously in the Saturday Review (17 November 1894); see full list A humorous reference to Menander's "ὃν οἱ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν ἀποθνῄσκει νέος [whom the gods love dies young]".
“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.”
— Oscar Wilde
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