Quote

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

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
Accepted
Personality
Poet
Poetry
Drunks
Rather
Mustn
Must
Poets
Mind
Always
Drunk

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.
Oscar Wilde
Image
One's dreams must be big enough so as not to lose sight of them.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly
Oscar Wilde
Image
What a fuss people make about fidelity! exclaimed Lord Henry. Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
Oscar Wilde
Image
And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.
Oscar Wilde
Image
George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.
Oscar Wilde
Image
They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.
Oscar Wilde
Image
There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
Oscar Wilde
Image
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Millionaire models are rare enough but model millionaires are rarer still!
Oscar Wilde
Image
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
Oscar Wilde
Image
No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself
Oscar Wilde
Image
Bad artists always admire each others work.
Oscar Wilde