Oscar Wilde Quotations Truth and Creativity

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

 
 

 
 
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
 

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn’t so, life wouldn’t be worth living.
 

All great ideas are dangerous.
 

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
 

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
 

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
 

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
 

Only the shallow know themselves.
 

I can believe anything as long as it is incredible.
 

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
 

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
 

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
 

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
 

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
 

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
 

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

 
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