Quotes About Oscar Wilde Writing

#1. Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

Oscar Wilde

#2. There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

Oscar Wilde

#3. Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.

Bertrand Russell

#4. Whatever one writes, comes to pass.

Oscar Wilde

#5. The bad preacher takes the ideas of our own age and tricks them out into the traditional language of Christianity. The core of his thought is merely contemporary; only the superficies is traditional. But your teaching must be timeless at its heart and wear modern dress.

C.S. Lewis

#6. Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be ...

Andy Rooney

#7. 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, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

Oscar Wilde

#8. Sometimes the only way to carry a heavy burden is to share it with another

Jim Butcher

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

Oscar Wilde

#10. George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

Oscar Wilde

#11. Most of us have experienced wow moments. We just haven't taken time to think deeply about them.

Michael Hyatt

#12. The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

#14. 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 nobody.

Oscar Wilde

#15. Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life ... I have put only my talent into my works.

Oscar Wilde

#16. What you read when you don't have to ...

Oscar Wilde

#17. Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.

Noel Coward

#18. When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

Oscar Wilde

#19. Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

Oscar Wilde

#20. Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

Oscar Wilde

#21. Writing bores me so.

Oscar Wilde

#22. I wrote when I did not know life. Now that I know life, I have no more to write.

Oscar Wilde

#23. As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that things truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#24. I wish i could write them down, these little coloured parables or poems that live for a moment in some cell of my brain, and then leave it to go wandering elsewhere. I hate writing; the mere act of writing a thing down is troublesome to me. I want some fine medium, and look for it in vain.

Oscar Wilde

#25. 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.

Oscar Wilde

#26. Those who want to learn more than bread and butter shall be able to make this world a better place ...

Dinesh Kumar

#27. Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

Oscar Wilde

#28. You talk books away," he said; "why don't you write one?" "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Erskine. I should like to write a novel certainly, a novel that would be as lovely as a Persian carpet and as unreal.

Oscar Wilde

#29. I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

#31. He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

Oscar Wilde