Dangerous Quotes by Oscar Wilde

11 Dangerous quotes by Oscar Wilde

Wilde’s razor‑edge humor cuts through the notion of danger, revealing both satire and sincerity. This short set lets you taste his flamboyant critique of peril without the full volume.

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All great ideas are dangerous.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

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It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.

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Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

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Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either…

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I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing…

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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either…

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How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

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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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