Great Writing Quotes by Author Oscar Wilde
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. 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. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
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