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Heart Quotes by Oscar Wilde

49 Heart quotes by Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde uses the heart as a vivid symbol of love, pain, and transformation. He writes that a broken heart can open a path for spiritual entry, while keeping love in the heart sustains life. He also paints images of crimson roses and stone hearts to show how beauty and sorrow intertwine.

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“It was always once springtime in my heart.”

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Hearts Live By Being Wounded

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Always keep love in your heart.

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“keep love in your heart”

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One should always be in love.

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God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

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

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“My heart shall never be put under their microscope.”

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“The world is cruel, give me thy heart to take with me.”

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If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

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We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.

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She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.

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And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make…

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And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as…

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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart…

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The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s…

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My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that…

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some…

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“What a laugh she had!--just like a thrush singing. And how pretty she had been in her cotton dresses and her large…

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one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and…

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Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love,…

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But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from…

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Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it…

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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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For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space…

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ï¶ Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness…

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I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the…

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And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a…

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Requiescat Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. All her bright golden hair…

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Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal…

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Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “…

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For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the…

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Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run…

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You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

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“No," she answered, wondering at the harsh simplicity of life.”

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“and life, seeing her own image, was still, and dared not to speak.”

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To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

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She knew nothing but she had everything he had lost.

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The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.

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

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

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

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…