And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. They were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them.
That is all.”ĭangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.” Books are well written, or badly written. When you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”Īs a moral or an immoral book. Sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” ADVICE THIS WAY Keep clicking to get Wilde’s most famous quotes about writing and creativity. It is never any use to oneself.”Īdvice about advice. Only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. “Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect – simply a confession of failures.The Best Quotes From Oscar Wilde on Writing and CreativityĬelebrated writers of the 19th century, Oscar Wilde knew a thing or two about writing and creativity. “Young men want to be faithful and are not old men want to be faithless and cannot.” “A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.” “To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.” That is the reason one should never marry.” “Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman – or the want of it in the man.” “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime” Quotes About Love “The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.” “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.” “You must not find symbols in everything you see. “Life is never fair…And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” “The Book of Life begins with a man and woman in a garden. “Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.” “The Picture of Dorian Gray” Quotes About Life “It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one’s back that are absolutely and entirely true.”
“Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.” “The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.” Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.” “The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. “People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.” “Lady Windermere’s Fan” Quotes About People They’re always so damned amusing to talk to.” Women who hate one are much more interesting.” But they invariably want it back in such very small change.” “Women give to men the very gold of their lives. “My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth, I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.” It is that which makes women so irresistibly adorable.” “I don’t think there is a woman in the world who would not be a little flattered if one made love to her. I think they are usually punished for it!” “I don’t know that women are always rewarded for being charming. “It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing.” “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.” That is the difference between men and women.” “Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.” A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.” “One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. “Lady Windermere’s Fan” Quotes About Women “I don’t like compliments, and I don’t see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn’t mean.” “Nowadays all the married men live like bachelors and all the bachelors live like married men.” “A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.” “How many men there are in modern life who would like to see their past burning to white ashes before them!” “I delight in men over seventy, they always offer one the devotion of a lifetime. “Men become old, but they never become good.” “Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” “No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”