“Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Source: The Complete Fairy Tales
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@xy, member from Sept. 25, 2023“Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.”
Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance
Source: A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
Context: There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.
Context: Puritans cannot destroy a beautiful thing, yet, by means of their extraordinary prurience, they can almost taint beauty for a moment. It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Context: It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.
“Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.”
Lord Goring, Act II
Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)
“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.”
Oscar Wilde book The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Source: The Happy Prince and Other Tales
“When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.”
Oscar Wilde book De Profundis
Source: De Profundis
“If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Variant: For one moment our lives met our souls touched.
“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious”
Oscar Wilde book Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young
Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
Variant: Patriotism is the vice of nations.
“As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray