Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.
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
Error
Discovered
Suppose
Errors
Merely
America
Ever
Detected
Vulgar
More quotes by Oscar Wilde
I live in terror of not being misunderstood.
Oscar Wilde
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.
Oscar Wilde
Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.
Oscar Wilde
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.
Oscar Wilde
Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?
Oscar Wilde
I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.
Oscar Wilde
The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
Oscar Wilde
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.
Oscar Wilde
Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.
Oscar Wilde
She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.
Oscar Wilde
Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.
Oscar Wilde
The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.
Oscar Wilde
If you cannot write well, you cannot think well if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.
Oscar Wilde
Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.
Oscar Wilde
Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art
Oscar Wilde
Life under a good government is rarely dramatic life under a bad government is always so.
Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.
Oscar Wilde
True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.
Oscar Wilde
The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.
Oscar Wilde
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Oscar Wilde
