Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
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
Usually
Great
Judas
Writing
Biography
Every
Disciples
Men
Biographies
Disciple
Nowadays
Writes
More quotes by Oscar Wilde
Divorces are made in heaven.
Oscar Wilde
She is a peacock in everything but beauty!
Oscar Wilde
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Oscar Wilde
Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.
Oscar Wilde
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde
The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
Oscar Wilde
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
Oscar Wilde
Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.
Oscar Wilde
A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.
Oscar Wilde
Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.
Oscar Wilde
Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes
Oscar Wilde
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
Oscar Wilde
The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
Oscar Wilde
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde
Genius lasts longer than beauty
Oscar Wilde
I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.
Oscar Wilde
My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Oscar Wilde
The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.
Oscar Wilde
The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
Oscar Wilde
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde
