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“The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.”

Oscar Wilde book The Soul of Man under Socialism

Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism

“Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Selected Stories

“Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan

Cecil Graham http://books.google.com/books?id=8SzYgCNz-vwC&q=&quot;Gossip+is+charming+History+is+merely+gossip+But+scandal+is+gossip+made+tedious+by+morality&quot;&pg=PT52#v=onepage, Act III <br class="br">Variant: Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. <br class="br">Source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

“Everyone quoted it, it was full of so many words that they could not understand.”

Oscar Wilde book The Happy Prince

Source: The Happy Prince

“Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is.”

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

Mrs Cheveley, Act I
Usually quoted as: No man is rich enough to buy back his own past.
Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)

“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks.”

Oscar Wilde Salome

Source: Salomé

“He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.”

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

Source: An Ideal Husband

“The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“LADY BRACKNELL

Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid.
Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“God and other artists are always a little obscure…..”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet