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Truth Quotes by Oscar Wilde

72 Truth quotes by Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde jokes that insincerity can be a way to show many sides of ourselves. He points out that the value of an idea does not depend on how sincere the speaker is, and that people often say true things behind others’ backs. He also says that in important matters, style can matter more than sincerity.

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“Nichts Interessantes ist jemals richtig.”

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“Sincerity is the last refuge of the shallow.”

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Every thing to be true must become a religion.

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The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

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The truth is never pure and rarely simple.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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The way of paradoxes is the way of truth.

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Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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True love is just like regular love, but with more truth.

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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

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The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

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There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

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“Women have no appreciation of good looks—at least, good women have not.”

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Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

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“Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities. Such,”

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It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that…

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My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas…

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It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely…

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“Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When…

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In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

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Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing…

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The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

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Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series…

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“Now, the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the…

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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never…

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Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate:…

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“Jack: [Slowly and hesitatingly] “Gwendolen–Cecily–it is very painful for me to be forced to speak the truth. It is the first time…

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People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies…

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In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which…

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“Jack: “Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking…

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“The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the…

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She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but…

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Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike…

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The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

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The truth is rarely pure and is never simple.

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Give a man a mask and he’ll tell you the truth.

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Truth is independent of facts always.

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All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?

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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

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