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“She is a peacock in everything but beauty!”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Variant: America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
“Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Algernon, Act I.
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Context: Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
“Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Most people are boring and stupid.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
"The Children of the Poets," The Pall Mall Gazette http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/1307/ (October 14, 1886) <br class="br">Variant: One can survive everything nowadays except death.
“The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.”
Oscar Wilde book The Canterville Ghost
Source: The Canterville Ghost
“Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray