Home » Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde Irish - Author poet playwright Born : 16.10.1854 _________ Died : 30.11.1900 1 The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. Oscar Wilde Sister, Technology, Machine Add to Collection 2 Charity creates a multitude of sins. Oscar Wilde Charity, Sins, Multitude Add to Collection 3 All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. Oscar Wilde Poetry, Feeling, Bad Add to Collection 4 When good Americans die they go to Paris. Oscar Wilde Good, Die, Paris Add to Collection 5 Writing bores me so. Oscar Wilde Writing, Me, Bores Add to Collection 6 What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. Oscar Wilde Art, Lying, Duty Add to Collection 7 If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. Oscar Wilde Sympathy, World, Trouble Add to Collection 8 Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. Oscar Wilde Death, Facts, Away Add to Collection 9 The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. Oscar Wilde Intelligence, Genius, Public Add to Collection 10 As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. Oscar Wilde War, Long, Always Add to Collection 11 I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children. Oscar Wilde Children, Day, School Add to Collection 12 There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies. Oscar Wilde People, Mean, Always Add to Collection 13 Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. Oscar Wilde Great, Trying, Now Add to Collection 14 Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. Oscar Wilde Good, Country, Anybody Add to Collection 15 I have never given adoration to any body except myself. Oscar Wilde Myself, Body, Never Add to Collection 16 Biography lends to death a new terror. Oscar Wilde Death, New, Biography Add to Collection 17 Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting. Oscar Wilde Art, Romantic, Good Add to Collection 18 'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure. Oscar Wilde Life, Art, Women Add to Collection 19 There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. Oscar Wilde Love, People, Emotions Add to Collection 20 The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. Oscar Wilde People, London, Know Add to Collection 21 London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know. Oscar Wilde Courage, Me Add to Collection 22 You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit. Oscar Wilde Past, People, Way Add to Collection 23 One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged. Oscar Wilde Woman, Man, World Add to Collection 24 There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about. Oscar Wilde Fear, Book, Healthy Add to Collection 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 next › last »
