Oscar Wilde Quotes on Writing

7 quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

  7. 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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