7 Oscar Wilde Quotes on Writing

Oscar Wilde quotes on writing

13. A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

23. I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

32. Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning. He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.

33. Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

46. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

163. I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

248. If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.

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