Oscar Wilde Quotes About Nature

• It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

  Oscar Wilde

  Nature, Looks, Littles

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.735, GENERAL PRESS

• Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

  Oscar Wilde

  Nature, Bird, Environment

• 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

• Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

  Oscar Wilde

  Nature, Men, Tests

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.94, BoD – Books on Demand

• 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

• A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Nature, Links

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “An Ideal Husband: Second Edition, Revised”, p.85, A&C Black

• Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Nature, Voice

  Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

• It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

  Oscar Wilde

  Nature, Character, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.14, Penguin

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