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Wilde, Oscar
The Canterville Ghost
English Literature
Poetry
adaptations of his works
beliefs about art
biographies and film depictions of Wilde
friends and associates
illustrations for Salomé
legal trials
literary forms
manager of lecture career
quotations
Acting and Actors: Ah, every day dear Herbert becomes de plus en…
Age: No woman should ever be…
Agreement: Ah! don't say you agree…
Ambition: André came to London to start a salon, and…
Americans: MRS ALLONBY They say, Lady…
Arguments: Arguments are to be avoided:…
Art: All Art is quite useless.
Art: Art is the most intense…
Art: Art never expresses anything but…
Artists: That he is indeed one…
Audiences: I should be like a…
Audiences: The play was a great…
Beauty: It is better to be…
Bereavement: Grief has turned her fair.
Books: There is no such thing…
Character: It is only shallow people…
Charm: It is absurd to divide…
Class: Really, if the lower orders…
Composers: After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been…
Composers: I like Wagner's music better than…
Cricket: It requires one to assume…
Cynicism: A man who knows the…
Dancing: What is it to thee if she dance on blood?…
Death And Dying: For he who lives more…
Deception: I have invented an invaluable…
Decor: Either that wall paper goes,…
Democracy: Democracy means simply the bludgeoning…
Diaries: I never travel without my…
Education: Education is an admirable thing,…
Effort: Please do not shoot the…
Egotism: I am the only person…
Egotism: To love oneself is the…
England: But remember the dismal, ridiculous…
Excess: Moderation is a fatal thing,…
Experience: Experience is the name everyone gives to…
Fame: There is only one thing…
Flirtation: A woman will flirt with anyone in the world…
Frankness: On an occasion of this…
Genius: Nothing, except my genius.
Heroism: The crude commercialism of America,…
Homosexuality: "Mr Woilde, we 'ave come for tew take yew Where…
Homosexuality: He was one of the high priests of a school which…
Homosexuality: If all persons guilty of Oscar Wilde's…
Homosexuality: The "Love that dare not speak its name" in…
Human Condition: We are all in the…
Human Nature: A thing is not necessarily true because a…
Hypocrisy: I hope you have not…
Ignorance: Ignorance is like a delicate…
Illness: Nor do I in any…
Imprisonment: I know not whether Laws…
Imprisonment: I never saw a man…
Imprisonment: If this is the way…
Imprisonment: Something was dead in each…
Imprisonment: The Governor was strong upon…
Journalism: There is much to be…
Killing: Yet each man kills the…
Marriage: In married life three is…
Max Beerbohm: The gods bestowed on Max…
Misanthropy: Other people are quite dreadful.…
Misfortune: To lose one parent, Mr.…
Morality: The amount of women in…
Music: If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to…
Music: If one plays good music, people don't…
Music: Musical people are so very unreasonable.…
Objectivity: The man who sees both…
Occupations: Judges, like the criminal classes,…
Oscar Wilde: A ready means of being…
Oscar Wilde: He was over-dressed, pompous, snobbish,…
Oscar Wilde: If with the literate I…
Oscar Wilde: No, no, Oscar, you forget.…
Oscar Wilde: Oscar Wilde did not dive…
Oscar Wilde: That sovereign of insufferables.
Oscar Wilde: The last gentleman in Europe.
Oscar Wilde: You will, Oscar, you will.
Persecution: Wilde's captors were the police.…
Poets: Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he never…
Rebellion: Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild…
San Francisco: It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears…
Self-Knowledge: It is a terrible thing…
Sex: LORD ILLINGWORTH The Book of…
Sexuality: I am waiting until my slaves bring perfumes…
Sin: There is no sin except…
Sincerity: A little sincerity is a…
Sleep: "I have not slept for three hundred years,"…
Smoking: A cigarette is the perfect…
Snobbery: CECILY When I see a…
Snobbery: Never speak disrespectfully of Society,…
Snobbery: Three addresses always inspire confidence,…
Society: The man who can dominate a London…
Stress: This suspense is terrible. I…
Style: In matters of grave importance,…
Survival: One can survive everything nowadays, except…
Sympathy: I can sympathize with everything,…
Sympathy: One would have to have…
Taste: With our James vulgarity begins at home,…
Temptation: Anybody can be good in…
Temptation: I can resist everything except…
Temptation: The only way to get…
Theater: William Congreve is the only…
Thinking: Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in…
Trust: One should never trust a…
United States: The crude commercialism of America, its…
Virtue: As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them,…
War: As long as war is…
Wit: Dear Frank, we believe you;…
Wit: Oh, do let me go on. I want to see how it…
Women: All women become like their…
Women: There is nothing in the…
Women: Women represent the triumph of…
Work: Work is the curse of…
Writers: He sipped at a weak…
Writers: Mr Bernard Shaw has no enemies but is…
Writers: Mr Wilde...who sat in a high-backed chair,…
Writers: Who am I to tamper…
Youth: The old-fashioned respect for the…
stage productions of his plays
tomb
translation of works
Diaries: I never travel without my…
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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