History Quotes by Oscar Wilde

History is only gossip.

— Oscar Wilde

History is merely gossip

— Oscar Wilde

The curves of your lips rewrite history.

— Oscar Wilde

History is a lie commonly agreed upon.

— Oscar Wilde

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

— Oscar Wilde

“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is a man's original virtue.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The ages live in history through their anachronisms.”

— Oscar Wilde

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

— Oscar Wilde

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

— Oscar Wilde

The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

— Oscar Wilde

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

— Oscar Wilde

“If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.”

— Oscar Wilde

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been…

— Oscar Wilde

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

— Oscar Wilde

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

— Oscar Wilde

“It is rarely in the world's history that its ideal has been one of joy and beauty. The worship of pain has…

— Oscar Wilde

The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the…

— Oscar Wilde

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have…

— Oscar Wilde

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable…

— Oscar Wilde

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the…

— Oscar Wilde

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude…

— Oscar Wilde

The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the…

— Oscar Wilde

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has…

— Oscar Wilde

Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age…

— Oscar Wilde

My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is…

— Oscar Wilde

Disobedíience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is mans original virtue. It is through disobediíence that progress has…

— Oscar Wilde

That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it…

— Oscar Wilde

“As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time,…

— Oscar Wilde

“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been…

— Oscar Wilde

“For the great eras in the history of the development of all the arts have been eras not of increased feeling or…

— Oscar Wilde

“Art never expresses anything but itself. It has an independent life, just as thought has, and develops purely on its own lines…

— Oscar Wilde

“There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering…

— Oscar Wilde

There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life,…

— Oscar Wilde

“Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.”

— Oscar Wilde

As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments…

— Oscar Wilde

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

— Oscar Wilde