Quotes from De Profundis — Oscar Wilde
1854–1900
12 quotes
It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
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Only good questions deserve good answers.
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A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.
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We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.
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I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
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All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death
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We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
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The supreme vice is shallowness.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Oscar Wilde (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.