Given Quotes by Oscar Wilde

14 Given quotes by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde’s razor‑sharp humor often masks deeper truths. Across fourteen succinct statements, he playfully dissects the concept of what’s been handed over, prompting a smile and a moment of reflection.

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I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

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The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

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Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

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It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine,…

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I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many…

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Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely…

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Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a…

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In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure…

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Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a…

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Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful…

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Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog…

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You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given…

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The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the…

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Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to…

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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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