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Wonder Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
- In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
- I walk the world in wonder.
- I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.
- It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the…
- When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome…
- I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he…
- You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you.…
- What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.
- Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?
- People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty…
- Love is like a booger. You keep picking at it until you get it, then wonder what to do with it.
More Wonder Quotes
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- '1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names. — Margaret Atwood
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. — Teresa of Avila
- I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that… — Teresa of Avila
- I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His… — Teresa of Avila
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman
- The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. — Richard Bach
- The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No… — Amitabh Bachchan
- A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. — Walter Bagehot