Oscar Wilde Quotes · Page 2
1854 – 1900
Irish poet and playwright renowned for his razor-sharp wit, flamboyant style, and tragic life. Author of The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest.
40 quotesAbout Oscar Wilde on Wikipedia
“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance.”
“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”
“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”
“Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.”
“Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is.”
“To speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.”
“Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.”
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
“Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue.”
“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”
