Nature Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Nature is always behind the age

— Oscar Wilde

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

— Oscar Wilde

Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

— Oscar Wilde

Nature constantly imitates art.

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Art, like Nature, has her monsters

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“Life has always poppies in her hands.”

— Oscar Wilde

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

— Oscar Wilde

“Out of doors one becomes abstract and impersonal.One's individuality absolutely leaves one.”

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Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

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It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

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She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust.

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If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture...

— Oscar Wilde

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

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A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

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Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using…

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That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a…

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“But above all things was it a return to Nature - that formula which seems to suit so many and such diverse…

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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one…

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The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing…

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“had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so,…

— Oscar Wilde

“At twilight nature becomes a wonderfully suggestive effect, and is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations…

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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly -- that is what each of us is here for. People…

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“Nothing is more evident than that Nature hates mind. Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of…

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“Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and…

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Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting…

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Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is…

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“It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little. I discern great sanity…

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Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's…

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“My sermon on the meaning of the manna in the wilderness can be adapted to almost any occasion, joyful, or, as in…

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The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the…

— Oscar Wilde

“There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral - immoral from the scientific point of…

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“For the various spiritual forms of the imagination have a natural affinity with certain sensuous forms of art - and to discern…

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“Of course to one so modern as I am, 'Enfant de mon siècle,’ merely to look at the world will be always…

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“The worship of the senses has often, and with much justice, been decried, men feeling a natural instinct of terror about passions…

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Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall…

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“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid…

— Oscar Wilde

“Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with…

— Oscar Wilde

“There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral,—immoral from the scientific point of view.’ ‘Why?’…

— Oscar Wilde