Quote

A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of 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
Took
Opportunity
Grapefruit
Lemon
Lemons
Advantage
Saws

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
The curves of your lips rewrite history.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
Oscar Wilde
Image
They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A mask tells us more than a face.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Wisdom comes with winters
Oscar Wilde
Image
Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.
Oscar Wilde
Image
If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
Oscar Wilde
Image
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
Oscar Wilde