Oscar Wilde Quotes about Courage

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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.

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)

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

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

Oscar Wilde Quotes about Courage

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