12 Oscar Wilde Quotes on Identity

Oscar Wilde quotes on identity

26. Tell me, when you are alone with him [ Max Beerbohm ] Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask?

37. 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 misunderstood.

43. The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

92. You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

105. The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

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

118. I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

183. Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

221. We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.

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

233. I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot.

251. Why was I born with such contemporaries?