Oscar Wilde Quotes About Affection

• It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Perfect

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.18, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

  Oscar Wilde

  Husband, Women, Grief

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 15 (1891). A similar quotation appears inWilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1 (1895).

• I never change, except in my affections.

  Oscar Wilde

  Affection, Never Change

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.149

• Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying, Perfection, Affection

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1039, GENERAL PRESS

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