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Writing Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
- I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the…
- It is personalities not principles that move the age.
- The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.
- They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else,…
- Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.
- George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.
- That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
- I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
- I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
- If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
- An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
- A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
- I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
- In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
- The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
- There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
- The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
- Biography lends to death a new terror.
- Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
- I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it…
- Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things…
- Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
- In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by…
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