Stones Quotes by Oscar Wilde

10 Stones quotes by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde’s trademark wit meets the humble stone, and these ten brief quips reveal his playful, ironic take on permanence and beauty.

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

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

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It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as…

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I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in…

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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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Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden…

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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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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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It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as…

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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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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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