"Would you like to know the great..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
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.
More by Oscar Wilde
“The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.”
“I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.”
“This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.”
More on Life
“Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.”
“If you're gonna make a change, you're gonna have to operate from a new belief that says life happens not to me but for me.”
“There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.”
More on Genius
“A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.”
“Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.”
“There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.”