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
Merely
America
Ever
Detected
Vulgar
Error
Discovered
Suppose
Errors
More quotes by Oscar Wilde
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
Oscar Wilde
Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.
Oscar Wilde
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Oscar Wilde
The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.
Oscar Wilde
It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
Oscar Wilde
I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel
Oscar Wilde
Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.
Oscar Wilde
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize
Oscar Wilde
Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.
Oscar Wilde
To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.
Oscar Wilde
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Oscar Wilde
If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.
Oscar Wilde
Don't feed the trolls nothing fuels them so much.
Oscar Wilde
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
Oscar Wilde
Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.
Oscar Wilde
Extravagance is the luxury of the poor penury is the luxury of the rich.
Oscar Wilde
Nothing worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde
The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.
Oscar Wilde
