Quotes by Oscar Wilde
4 quotes by Oscar Wilde (died 1900), taken from 3 works. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Works quoted: Lady Windermere’s Fan, De Profundis and The Happy Prince and Other Tales.
Lady Windermere’s Fan
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
De Profundis
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“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life.”
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“Where there is sorrow there is holy ground. Some day people will realise what that means. They will know nothing of life till they do.”
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
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“And when the people were going to market at twelve o’clock they found the Giant playing with the children in the most beautiful garden they had ever seen.”