Creative Quotations from Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Oscar Wilde
(1856-1900) born on Oct 16

Anglo-Irish "playwright, novelist". "He was noted for his flamboyant witty, sophisticated plays, e.g., "The Importance of Being Ernest," 1895."

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Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

Each man kills the thing he loves.

"If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any."

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"Gilbert, in "The Critic as Artist," pt. 1 (published in Intentions, 1891)."
R:	"Gilbert, in "The Critic as Artist," pt. 2; in "Intentions," 1891."
A:	"Basil Hallward, in "The Picture of Dorian Gray," ch. 1, 1891."
N:	"'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' [For more, see crime.]"
K:	Complaining at having to wait in the rain for transport to take him to prison. Attrib.