Poets Quotes by Oscar Wilde

10 Poets quotes by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde’s poetry carries his trademark wit and elegance. These ten lines give you a swift, enjoyable taste of his lyrical charm without demanding a long commitment.

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Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.

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Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

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“We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since…

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A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

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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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“but love is not fashionable anymore, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about it that nobody believed them, and…

Oscar Wilde

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“A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their…

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“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really…

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“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really…

Oscar Wilde

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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…

Oscar Wilde

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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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