Quotes by Wilde, Oscar

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of >>

One should always play fair when one has the winning cards. >>

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality >>

Quotations about Literature

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last ge >>

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of >>

Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually >>

Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac.

Wilde, Oscar