Lord Goring, Act III
An Ideal Husband (1895)
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The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
“The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.”
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Jack, Act I
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
“What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.”
Lady Windermere, Act IV
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
“And all, but Lust, is turned to dust
In Humanity's machine.”
Pt. V, st. 7
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
Pt. III, st. 35
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.”
J’ai mis tout mon génie dans ma vie; je n’ai mis que mon talent dans mes œuvres.
Conversation with André Gide in Algiers, quoted in letter by Gide to his mother (30 January 1895); popularized by Gide and often subsequently quoted in Gide’s later work and in "Gide, André (1869-1951)" at Standing Ovations http://www.mr-oscar-wilde.de/about/g/gide.htm; the conversation was again recalled in Gide’s journal of (3 July 1913), quoted in “André Gide’s ‘Hommage à Oscar Wilde’ or ‘The Tale of Judas’”, Victoria Reid (University of Glasgow, UK), Chapter 5 in [Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe], edited by Stefano Evangelista (8 July 2010) part of a Continuum series The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe, ISBN 978-1-84706005-1, pp. 98–99 http://books.google.com/books?id=-oBmdCTSJ5IC&pg=PA98#v=onepage&q=%22I%20put%20all%20my%20genius%22, also footnote 6 (p. 99), quoting 1996 edition of Gide’s journal, pp. 746–47]
Oscar Wilde, 1897, | Hart-Davis, ed., Letters of Wilde, p. 173 https://circle.ubc.ca/bitstream/handle/2429/19170/UBC_1974_A8%20S88.pdf
“All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death;”
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De Profundis
De Profundis (1897)
“We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.”
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De Profundis
De Profundis (1897)
“Oh! journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.”
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Mabel Chiltern, Act I
An Ideal Husband (1895)
“I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.”
Written in a letter from Reading Prison to Lord Alfred Douglas in early 1897
The Harlot's House http://www.poetry-archive.com/w/the_harlots_house.html, st. 12 (1885)
“I have a business appointment that I am anxious… to miss.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest