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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Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

Conscience makes egotists of us all.

"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."

The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"Lord Henry to Dorian Gray, in "The Picture of Dorian Gray," ch. 19, 1891."
R:	"Lord Henry, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 8 (1891)."
A:	"Lord Henry, in "The Picture of Dorian Gray," ch. 6, 1891."
N:	"Lord Henry, in "The Picture of Dorian Gray," ch. 4, 1891."
K:	"Lord Henry, in "The Picture of Dorian Gray," ch. 4, 1891."