Oscar Wilde Quotes About Human Nature

• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Being Yourself

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

• The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

  Oscar Wilde

  Nature, People, Analysis

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

• The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Change, Sarcastic

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 2 (1895)

• Only the shallow know themselves.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.209, Courier Corporation

• The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

  Oscar Wilde

  Nature, Errors, Growth

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1062, Wordsworth Editions

• By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.

  Oscar Wilde

  Tasks, Littles, Brilliant

• The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thought Provoking, Quality, Human Nature

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1062, Wordsworth Editions

• The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

  Oscar Wilde

  Growth, Development, Human Nature

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1062, Wordsworth Editions

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