Quote #34
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes his biography.
More from Oscar Wilde
- Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
- Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
- Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning. He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.
- Oh! journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.
- Art persists, it timelessly continues.
- I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being m…
- No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
- The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.