Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wildewas an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 October 1854
CityDublin, Ireland
CountryIreland
Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
A damsel is a genius in the daytime and a beauty at night.
this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night
Genius lasts longer than beauty
Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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.
When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.
I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.
I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.
There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.
M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.
I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.
As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.
I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.