Born Quotes by Oscar Wilde

14 Born quotes by Oscar Wilde

Wilde’s reflections on birth sparkle with the same irony and elegance that made his epigrams famous. In this brief collection, his clever turns of phrase invite you to see the moment of arrival through a sharper, more playful lens.

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Why was I born with such contemporaries?

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Genius is born-not paid

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If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.

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The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

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Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

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LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is…

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In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a…

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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously,…

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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display…

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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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I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see…

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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously,…

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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the…

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A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime.…

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The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

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Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others

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Who, being loved, is poor?

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“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life…

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Anybody can be good in the country

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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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“Alles Populäre ist falsch.”

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“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are…

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To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance

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“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”

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Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last…

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Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

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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.

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

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