Oscar Wilde Quotes About Being Real

• To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Being Real

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.110, Courier Corporation

• Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Trust, Being Yourself

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.64, Courier Corporation

• I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Being Real, Shadow

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.112, OUP Oxford

• Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

  Oscar Wilde

  Slave Owners, People, Being Real

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.256, University of Chicago Press

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