Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Irish playwright.
Sourced quotes
- “All art is immoral.”[1]
- Simple: No art is moral.
- “A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”[2]
- Simple: A poet can survive anything other than a printing mistake.
- “Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.”[3]
- Simple: Anybody can make history. But only a great man can write history.
- “There is no sin except stupidity.”[4]
- Simple: Stupidity is the only sin.
- “Charity creates a multitude of sins.”[5]
- Simple: Charity creates too many sins.
References
- ↑ Intentions (1891)
- ↑ "The Children of the Poets," The Pall Mall Gazette (October 14, 1886)
- ↑ The Critic as Artist (1891). Pt. I
- ↑ The Critic as Artist (1891). Pt. II
- ↑ The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1895)
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