Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
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
Finished
Merely
Books
Book
Writing
Never
Abandoned
More quotes by Oscar Wilde
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
Oscar Wilde
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde
To be popular I must be mediocre.
Oscar Wilde
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
Oscar Wilde
It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.
Oscar Wilde
A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.
Oscar Wilde
ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.
Oscar Wilde
Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
Oscar Wilde
A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.
Oscar Wilde
I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.
Oscar Wilde
It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.
Oscar Wilde
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Oscar Wilde
Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
Oscar Wilde
Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.
Oscar Wilde
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
Oscar Wilde
The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.
Oscar Wilde
The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
Oscar Wilde
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
Oscar Wilde
As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.
Oscar Wilde
The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.
Oscar Wilde
