 You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
– Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
Category Archives: Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde – Invention of architecture
| If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.
– Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
Oscar Wilde – What selfishness is
| Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
– Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
Oscar Wilde – What you read when you don’t have to
| It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
– Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
Oscar Wilde – Treating you as ordinary
| Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
– Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
Oscar Wilde – Most people are other people
| Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
– Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
Oscar Wilde – Teaching acting
| The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel, it is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
– Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
Oscar Wilde – To live is the rarest thing
| To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
– Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
Oscar Wilde – Be yourself
| Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
– Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
Oscar Wilde – Causing happiness
| Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
– Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
Oscar Wilde – Fashion is a form of ugliness
| Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
– Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
Oscar Wilde – Disobedience is man’s original virtue
| Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
– Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
