Oscar Wilde Ours Quotations

Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

Of course America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Be yourself, because others are already taken.

There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

Give a man a mask and he’ll tell you the truth.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

The General was essentially a man of peace, except of course in his domestic affairs.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.