Oscar Wilde: Trending quotes (page 3)
Oscar Wilde trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collectionThe Critic as Artist (1891), Part II
After claiming he could give a speech on any subject at a moment's notice, and being challenged by Lord Ribblesdale to talk about the Queen.
Quoted in The Reminiscences of Lady Randolph Churchill (1908)
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
“The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.”
Kelvil, Act I
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
"The Nightingale and the Rose"
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888)
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
“Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.”
Quoted by Alvin Redman in The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde http://books.google.com/books?id=qUjQAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Prayer+must+never+be+answered+if+it+is+it+ceases+to+be+prayer+and+becomes+correspondence%22&pg=PA106#v=onepage (1952)
“Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.”
The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde, edited by Alvin Redman (1954)
Gwendolen, Act II
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II
“When a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.”
Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
As quoted in In Victorian Days and Other Papers (1939) http://books.google.com/books?id=LfIjfuQGwOIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=In+Victorian+days&as_brr=0&cd=1#v=onepage&q=notorious&f=false by Sir David Oswald Hunter-Blair, p. 122
“Those whom the gods love grow young.”
A humorous reference to Menander's "ὃν οἱ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν ἀποθνῄσκει νέος [whom the gods love dies young]".
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)