Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Dublin city
Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Tell
Honesty
Playwright
Truth
Oneself
Discomfort
Give
Hero
Lied
Persons
Comfortable
Talks
Person
Least
Discovering
Giving
Dark
Novelists
Essayists
Men
Talking
Mask
Anonymity
Funny
Witty
Dishonesty
More quotes by Oscar Wilde
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.
Oscar Wilde
It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde
If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?
Oscar Wilde
I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.
Oscar Wilde
The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.
Oscar Wilde
The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.
Oscar Wilde
I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.
Oscar Wilde
It is what we fear that happens to us.
Oscar Wilde
Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.
Oscar Wilde
Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.
Oscar Wilde
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.
Oscar Wilde
No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.
Oscar Wilde
Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.
Oscar Wilde
You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]
Oscar Wilde
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Oscar Wilde
Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.
Oscar Wilde
One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.
Oscar Wilde
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Oscar Wilde