Oscar Wilde Quotes About Courage

• Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

  Oscar Wilde

  Courage, Betrayal, Kissing

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 1, st. 7 (1898) See Roberts 1

• Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

• To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Courage

  Quoted in Hesketh Pearson, Oscar Wilde, His Life and Wit (1946)

• Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Courage, Yield, Temptation

• Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Courage, Giving, Temptation

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