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."

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

"Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable."

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

"Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but molds it to its purpose."

"A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes."

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"Vivian, in "The Decay of Lying" (published in Intentions, 1891)."
R:	"Vivian, in "The Decay of Lying" (published in Intentions, 1891)."
A:	"Vivian, in "The Decay of Lying" (published in Intentions, 1891)."
N:	"Vivian, in "The Decay of Lying" (published in Intentions, 1891)."
K:	"The Roman Candle, answering "What is a sensitive person?" in "The Remarkable Rocket," 1888."