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Nature Quotes by Oscar Wilde

77 Nature quotes by Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde writes that nature judges us by the pleasure we feel, giving a sign of approval. He also notes that nothing nature creates lasts forever; it repeats so nothing is lost. Finally, he compares art to nature, saying both can have monstrous sides and that genius learns from nature while talent learns from art.

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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

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“Life has always poppies in her hands.”

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Art, like Nature, has her monsters

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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

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To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

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Nature is always behind the age

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Nature constantly imitates art.

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Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

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“She is at rest. Peace, peace, she cannot hear, Lyre or sonnet, All my life's buried here, Heap earth upon it.”

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I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

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“to make public atonement. There was a God who called upon men to tell their sins to earth as well as to…

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He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weepswhen there is nothing at all toweep about.

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Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

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Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

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“His nature had developed like a flower, had borne blossoms of scarlet flame. Out of its secret hiding-place had crept his Soul,…

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“As he thought of it, a sharp pang of pain struck through him like a knife and made each delicate fibre of…

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Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and…

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“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate…

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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to…

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“I did not want any external influence in my life. You know how independent I am by nature. I have always been…

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“had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so,…

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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one…

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“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the…

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The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be…

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“The aim of life is self-development. To realise one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid…

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“But it appeared to Dorian Gray that the true nature of the senses had never been understood, and that they had remained…

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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate…

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I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the…

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There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that…

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Nature…she will hang the night stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send word the wind…

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“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid…

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“There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral,—immoral from the scientific point of view.’ ‘Why?’…

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“Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with…

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“There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral - immoral from the scientific point of…

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Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall…

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“The worship of the senses has often, and with much justice, been decried, men feeling a natural instinct of terror about passions…

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“Of course to one so modern as I am, 'Enfant de mon siècle,’ merely to look at the world will be always…

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“For the various spiritual forms of the imagination have a natural affinity with certain sensuous forms of art - and to discern…

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a…