Tag: Oscar Wilde
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One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
Oscar Wilde
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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Oscar Wilde
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde
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Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.
Oscar Wilde
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She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
Oscar Wilde
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Oscar Wilde
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Oscar Wilde
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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
Oscar Wilde