Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
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
World
Accomplished
Kept
Achievement
Tired
Working
Persevere
Many
Achievements
Great
Discouraged
Men
Perseverance
More quotes by Oscar Wilde
There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.
Oscar Wilde
memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away
Oscar Wilde
The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
Oscar Wilde
A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.
Oscar Wilde
The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.
Oscar Wilde
Each of us has heaven and hell in him.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?
Oscar Wilde
Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
Oscar Wilde
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber
Oscar Wilde
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
Oscar Wilde
Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.
Oscar Wilde
Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.
Oscar Wilde
A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.
Oscar Wilde
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Oscar Wilde
Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.
Oscar Wilde
I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.
Oscar Wilde
To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.
Oscar Wilde
Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.
Oscar Wilde
At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.
Oscar Wilde
Irony is wasted on the stupid
Oscar Wilde
