Oscar Wilde Quotes


509 quotes:

"While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy;"
Author: Wilde Quotes Category: Advice Quotes
"This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again."
Author: Wilde Quotes Category: Writers And Writing Quotes
"The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth."
Author: Wilde Quotes Category: Perfection Quotes
"The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring."
Author: Wilde Quotes Category: Love Quotes Scholars And Scholarship Quotes
"To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect."
Author: Wilde Quotes Category: Irish Dramatist Quotes
"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all."
Author: Wilde Quotes Category: Irish Dramatist Quotes
"Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow."
Author: Wilde Quotes Category: Irish Dramatist Quotes Seriousness Quotes
"Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all."
Author: Wilde Quotes Category: Conscience Quotes
"She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman."
Author: Wilde Quotes Category: Appearance Quotes Desperation Quotes
"When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself."
Author: Wilde Quotes Category: Agreement Quotes
"Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected."
Author: Wilde Quotes Category: Admiration Quotes
"Bad artists always admire each others work."
Author: Wilde Quotes Category: Admiration Quotes
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
Author: Wilde Quotes Category: Education Quotes Irish Dramatist Quotes
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
Author: Wilde Quotes Category: Art Quotes Irish Dramatist Quotes
"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."
Author: Wilde Quotes Category: Character Quotes
"The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored."
Author: Wilde Quotes Category: Women Quotes
"If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out"
Author: Wilde Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"I was disappointed in Niagara -- most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life."
Author: Wilde Quotes Category: Travel And Tourism Quotes
"Time is waste of money."
Author: Wilde Quotes Category: Time And Time Management Quotes
"Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity."
Author: Wilde Quotes Category: Thoughts And Thinking Quotes

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