Quote

George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

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
Moore
Grammar
George
Discovered
Brilliant
Wrote
English
Writing

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.
Oscar Wilde
Image
History is merely gossip
Oscar Wilde
Image
I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Children begin by loving their parents after a time they judge them rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .
Oscar Wilde
Image
The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
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
No art ever survived censorship no art ever will.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Most people are boring and stupid.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The moon in her chariot of pearl
Oscar Wilde
Image
You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.
Oscar Wilde
Image
She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Every woman is wrong until she cries.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art
Oscar Wilde
Image
Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.
Oscar Wilde
Image
[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.
Oscar Wilde