--- title: "7 Impression Quotes By Oscar Wilde" description: "7 Impression quotes by Oscar Wilde. Plus more from Oscar Wilde and more Impression sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/861/oscar-wilde-16_first-impressions_my-first-impressions-of-people-are-invar_763269.jpg" --- > [“My first impressions of people are invariably right.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/my-first-impressions-of-people-are-invariably-right/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/861/oscar-wilde-16_first-impressions_my-first-impressions-of-people-are-invar_763269.jpg) > [The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-artist-is-the-creator-of-beautiful-things-to-reveal-art-and-3/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59c/oscar-wilde-16_aim_the-artist-is-the-creator-of-beautiful-t_2138957.jpg) > [The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-great-events-of-life-often-leave-one-unmoved-they-pass-out-of/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6f/oscar-wilde-16_brain_the-great-events-of-life-often-leave-one_2322673.jpg) > [Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/temperament-is-the-primary-requisite-for-the-critic-a-temperament/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d1/oscar-wilde-16_beauty_temperament-is-the-primary-requisite-for_2481816.jpg) > [A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/a-temperament-capable-of-receiving-through-an-imaginative-medium-and/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da3/oscar-wilde-16_appreciate_a-temperament-capable-of-receiving-throu_2575434.jpg) > [My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/my-dear-algy-you-talk-exactly-as-if-you-were-a-dentist-it-is-very/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd1/oscar-wilde-16_dear_my-dear-algy-you-talk-exactly-as-if-you_3097210.jpg) > [Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/do-you-really-keep-a-diary-i-d-give-anything-to-look-at-it-may-i-oh/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8d/oscar-wilde-16_copies_do-you-really-keep-a-diary-i-d-give-anyt_3201021.jpg) ## Other authors on Impression ## More by Oscar Wilde > [How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/how-else-but-through-a-broken-heart-may-lord-christ-enter-in/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-books-that-the-world-calls-immoral-are-the-books-that-show-the/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/bachelors-should-be-heavily-taxed-it-is-not-fair-that-some-men-should/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Who, being loved, is poor?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/who-being-loved-is-poor/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/basil-my-dear-boy-puts-everything-that-is-charming-in-him-into-his/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Anybody can be good in the country](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/anybody-can-be-good-in-the-country/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/i-don-t-at-all-like-knowing-what-people-say-of-me-behind-my-back-it/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“Alles Populäre ist falsch.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/alles-popul-re-ist-falsch/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/if-these-elements-of-beauty-are-real-the-whole-thing-simply-appeals/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/to-love-one-s-self-is-the-beginning-of-a-life-long-romance/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/those-who-find-beautiful-meanings-in-beautiful-things-are-the/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/men-always-want-to-be-a-womans-first-love-women-have-a-more-subtle/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/why-is-it-that-at-a-bachelor-s-establishment-the-servants-invariably/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/moderation-is-a-fatal-thing-enough-is-as-bad-as-a-meal-more-than/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/beauty-is-the-only-thing-that-time-cannot-harm-philosophies-fall-away/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/impression/oscar-wilde/#itemlist", "name": "7 Impression Quotes By Oscar Wilde", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“My first impressions of people are invariably right.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Oscar Wilde" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/my-first-impressions-of-people-are-invariably-right/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/861/oscar-wilde-16_first-impressions_my-first-impressions-of-people-are-invar_763269.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/861/oscar-wilde-16_first-impressions_my-first-impressions-of-people-are-invar_763269.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/861/oscar-wilde-16_first-impressions_my-first-impressions-of-people-are-invar_763269.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“My first impressions of people are invariably right.” — Oscar Wilde", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The artist is the creator of beautiful things. 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