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Wonderful Quotes by Oscar Wilde

12 Wonderful quotes by Oscar Wilde

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Wilde’s trademark wit shines through these twelve brief reflections, each turning the notion of wonderful into a clever, thought‑provoking observation.

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Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.

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Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.

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“Love is a more wonderful thing than art.”

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Live the wonderful life that is in you.

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Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be…

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Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

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I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is…

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Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy…

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I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I…

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Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and…

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This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The…

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Well, I can’t help going to see Sibyl play, even if it is only for an act. I get hungry for her…

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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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