Oscar Wilde Genius Quotations

When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.

As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

Genius lasts longer than beauty

Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

Genius is born-not paid

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

A damsel is a genius in the daytime and a beauty at night.

Talent borrows, genius steals!

Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.