Quote

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Oscar Wilde

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Helping
Book
Determines
Determine
Reader
Wisdom
Reading
Help
Read

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.
Oscar Wilde
Image
History is only gossip.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them
Oscar Wilde
Image
A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.
Oscar Wilde
Image
It is so easy to convince others it is so difficult to convince oneself.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut the pessimist the hole!
Oscar Wilde
Image
I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.
Oscar Wilde
Image
There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
Oscar Wilde
Image
You and I will always be friends. Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
Oscar Wilde
Image
It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.
Oscar Wilde