{"id":432,"date":"2016-03-06T16:08:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T16:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/?p=432"},"modified":"2018-05-02T15:06:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T15:06:15","slug":"oscar-wilde-quotations-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/oscar-wilde-quotations-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Wilde Quotations (Part 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Oscar<\/a>
Oscar Wilde Great Quotes and Thoughts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"\"<\/a>The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it<\/span>
\n is not.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s <\/span>nerves – which is the same thing nowadays.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that <\/span>one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would <\/span>cease to be an artist.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not <\/span>look ugly.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so <\/span>calculating.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure <\/span>the senses but the soul.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience <\/span>makes egotists of us all.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a <\/span>great deal of harm.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it <\/span>had always been hushed up.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in <\/span>an open air cafe in Paris.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down <\/span>everything except a good reputation.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are <\/span>what they are and will be what they will be.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never <\/span>marry.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should <\/span>be judged.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Only the shallow know themselves.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are <\/span>infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each <\/span>one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do<\/span>
\n more.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself <\/span>would say that it had merely been detected.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses<\/span>
\n both.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Oscar Wile Quotations\u00a0\u00a0 (Part 1)<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0 (Part 2)<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 (Part 3)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Quotes by authors<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Quotes by arguments<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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