Oscar Wilde Quotes About History

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All quotes by Oscar Wilde: Accidents Achievement Acting Affection Age Aging Aliens Ambition Anger Animals Appearance Appreciation Arguing Art Atheism Atmosphere Attitude Authority Beauty Beer Being Happy Being Real Being Single Being Yourself Belief Best Friends Betrayal Birds Birth Birthdays Bitterness Blame Blessings Books Books And Reading Break Up Breakups Broken Hearts Business Canvas Cats Censorship Change Chaos Character Charity Children Choices Christ Christianity Church College Comedy Common Sense Community Compliments Confession Conformity Conscience Consciousness Cooking Country Courage Creativity Crime Criticism Critics Culture Curiosity Cynicism Daughters Death Deception Defeat Desire Destiny Devotion Difficulty Dignity Disappointment Dogs Doubt Drama Dreams Drinking Drunkenness Duty Dying Earth Eating Education Emotions Enemies Environment Epic Ethics Evil Evolution Excuses Exercise Exile Experience Eyes Failing Failure Faith Falling In Love Family Fashion Fathers Fear Feelings Fidelity Fighting Finding Yourself Flirting Flowers Food Forgiveness Friends Friendship Funny Future Gardens Genius Getting Older Giving Gold Goodness Gossip Graduation Gratitude Greatness Greek Grief Growing Old Growth Habits Happiness Hard Work Harmony Hate Hatred Heart Heartbreak Heaven Hell Hilarious History Home Homosexuality Honesty Hope Horror House Human Nature Humanity Hurt Husband Hypocrisy Identity Ignorance Imagination Imitation Impulse Independence Individualism Individuality Infidelity Innocence Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Irony Journalism Joy Judgement Judging Kissing Knowledge Language Laughter Leadership Learning Liars Liberty Life Life And Death Life And Love Listening Literature Live Life Logic Loss Lost Love Love Love Life Luck Lust Lying Madness Making Mistakes Mankind Manners Marriage Mask Maturity Mediocrity Meetings Memories Mercy Mistakes Moderation Modernism Money Moon Morality Morning Mothers Motivational Mourning Music Myth Nature Neighbours Oblivion Old Age Opinions Opportunity Optimism Pain Parents Parties Passion Past Peace Perception Perfection Personality Perspective Pessimism Philosophy Pleasure Poetry Politicians Politics Positive Positive Thinking Positivity Poverty Praise Prayer Prejudice Prisons Private Property Progress Property Punctuality Purpose Quality Rage Reading Reading Books Reality Rebellion Regret Rejection Relationships Religion Reputation Respect Revelations Revolution Risk Romance Romantic Love Romanticism Running Sacrifice Sad Sadness Saints Sarcasm School Science Secret Life Security Self Love Selfishness Seven Sexuality Shame Silence Silver Simplicity Sin Sincerity Singing Sinners Slavery Slaves Sleep Society Solitude Sorrow Soul Spirituality Spring Struggle Students Study Stupidity Style Success Suffering Summer Survival Sympathy Talent Tea Teaching Temptation Terror Theatre Time Tragedy Train Travel True Friends Truth Tyranny Ugliness Uncertainty Understanding Utopia Values Violence Virtue Vision Waiting Wall War Water Weakness Wealth Weddings Wife Wine Winning Winter Wisdom Wit Work Worship Writing Yoga Youth more...
  • The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

    Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.758, GENERAL PRESS
  • The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

    1891 Intentions, 'The Critic as Artist'.
  • Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

    Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.453, Oxford University Press on Demand
  • Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

    "The Soul of Man Under Socialism". Essay by Oscar Wilde, 1891.
  • The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

    Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.152, Wordsworth Editions
  • Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

    Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.25, Oxford University Press on Demand
  • The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

    Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.143, Simon and Schuster
  • As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

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    Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.50, Oscar Wilde
  • Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

    Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.67, Courier Corporation
  • There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)
  • Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

    Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 1 (1891)
  • Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

    Oscar Wilde (2010). “Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews”, p.107, University of Illinois Press
  • The secret of life is in art.

    Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.41, Wordsworth Editions
  • The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

    Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions
  • All great ideas are dangerous.

    Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.122, Oxford University Press on Demand
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Oscar Wilde quotes about: Accidents Achievement Acting Affection Age Aging Aliens Ambition Anger Animals Appearance Appreciation Arguing Art Atheism Atmosphere Attitude Authority Beauty Beer Being Happy Being Real Being Single Being Yourself Belief Best Friends Betrayal Birds Birth Birthdays Bitterness Blame Blessings Books Books And Reading Break Up Breakups Broken Hearts Business Canvas Cats Censorship Change Chaos Character Charity Children Choices Christ Christianity Church College Comedy Common Sense Community Compliments Confession Conformity Conscience Consciousness Cooking Country Courage Creativity Crime Criticism Critics Culture Curiosity Cynicism Daughters Death Deception Defeat Desire Destiny Devotion Difficulty Dignity Disappointment Dogs Doubt Drama Dreams Drinking Drunkenness Duty Dying Earth Eating Education Emotions Enemies Environment Epic Ethics Evil Evolution Excuses Exercise Exile Experience Eyes Failing Failure Faith Falling In Love Family Fashion Fathers Fear Feelings Fidelity Fighting Finding Yourself Flirting Flowers Food Forgiveness Friends Friendship Funny Future Gardens Genius Getting Older Giving Gold Goodness Gossip Graduation Gratitude Greatness Greek Grief Growing Old Growth Habits Happiness Hard Work Harmony Hate Hatred Heart Heartbreak Heaven Hell Hilarious History Home Homosexuality Honesty Hope Horror House Human Nature Humanity Hurt Husband Hypocrisy Identity Ignorance Imagination Imitation Impulse Independence Individualism Individuality Infidelity Innocence Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Irony Journalism Joy Judgement Judging Kissing Knowledge Language Laughter Leadership Learning Liars Liberty Life Life And Death Life And Love Listening Literature Live Life Logic Loss Lost Love Love Love Life Luck Lust Lying Madness Making Mistakes Mankind Manners Marriage Mask Maturity Mediocrity Meetings Memories Mercy Mistakes Moderation Modernism Money Moon Morality Morning Mothers Motivational Mourning Music Myth Nature Neighbours Oblivion Old Age Opinions Opportunity Optimism Pain Parents Parties Passion Past Peace Perception Perfection Personality Perspective Pessimism Philosophy Pleasure Poetry Politicians Politics Positive Positive Thinking Positivity Poverty Praise Prayer Prejudice Prisons Private Property Progress Property Punctuality Purpose Quality Rage Reading Reading Books Reality Rebellion Regret Rejection Relationships Religion Reputation Respect Revelations Revolution Risk Romance Romantic Love Romanticism Running Sacrifice Sad Sadness Saints Sarcasm School Science Secret Life Security Self Love Selfishness Seven Sexuality Shame Silence Silver Simplicity Sin Sincerity Singing Sinners Slavery Slaves Sleep Society Solitude Sorrow Soul Spirituality Spring Struggle Students Study Stupidity Style Success Suffering Summer Survival Sympathy Talent Tea Teaching Temptation Terror Theatre Time Tragedy Train Travel True Friends Truth Tyranny Ugliness Uncertainty Understanding Utopia Values Violence Virtue Vision Waiting Wall War Water Weakness Wealth Weddings Wife Wine Winning Winter Wisdom Wit Work Worship Writing Yoga Youth