Mystery Quotes by Oscar Wilde

14 Mystery quotes by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde’s 14 musings on the unknown are laced with his sharp humor and love of paradox. They invite you to smile while you contemplate the things that can’t be easily explained.

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There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

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The final mystery is oneself.

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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

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MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY…

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Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men…

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Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

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The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and…

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People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is.…

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Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were…

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It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy…

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It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the…

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“When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have…

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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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