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Letter "O" » Oscar Wilde Quotes
«While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy;»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
absolutely, copy, essentially, imitate, manner, method, personality, study, universal
«The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Journalism
| Keywords:
demands, insatiable, journalism, supplies, Supply and demand, tradesman, tradesmen
«One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.»
«To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable»
«Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman»
«He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.»
«If there is anything in the world more annoying than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.»
«I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Choice
| Keywords:
acquaintances, better-looking, careful, characters, choice, enemies, Friends for, good looks, intellects, looks, too-careful
«The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
dinner, dinner table, dominate, dominated by, table
«To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies»
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