Writing Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Writing bores me so.

— Oscar Wilde

“Whatever one writes, comes to pass.”

— Oscar Wilde

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

— Oscar Wilde

Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

— Oscar Wilde

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

— Oscar Wilde

“She lives in the poetry she cannot write.”

— Oscar Wilde

Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

— Oscar Wilde

It is personalities not principles that move the age.

— Oscar Wilde

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

— Oscar Wilde

“Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.”

— Oscar Wilde

George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— 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

I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to…

— Oscar Wilde

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

— Oscar Wilde

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public…

— Oscar Wilde

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

— Oscar Wilde

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

— Oscar Wilde

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

— Oscar Wilde

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

— Oscar Wilde

I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified.…

— Oscar Wilde

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there…

— Oscar Wilde

When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one…

— Oscar Wilde

Gwendolen, from The Importance of Being Earnest I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on…

— Oscar Wilde

“I wish i could write them down, these little coloured parables or poems that live for a moment in some cell of…

— Oscar Wilde

Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture,…

— Oscar Wilde

“No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in…

— Oscar Wilde

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their…

— Oscar Wilde

“Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are the artist’s materials for an art. From…

— Oscar Wilde

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make,…

— Oscar Wilde

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings…

— Oscar Wilde

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their…

— Oscar Wilde

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what…

— Oscar Wilde

God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be…

— Oscar Wilde

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

— Oscar Wilde

“The world is a stage, but the play is badly written.”

— Oscar Wilde

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

— Oscar Wilde

I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.

— Oscar Wilde

“Meredith is a prose Browning. So is Browning.”

— Oscar Wilde

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

— Oscar Wilde