Oscar Wilde Quotes About Genius

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Book

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 1 (1891)

• I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Work, Book

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.3, Courier Corporation

• I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Men, People

• Talent borrows, genius steals!

  Oscar Wilde

  Genius, Talent, Stealing

• I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, People, Listening

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.201, Courier Corporation

• You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Art, Stupid

• Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Genius, Talent

• Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

  Oscar Wilde

  Genius, Mediocrity, Tribute

• As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thinking, Genius, Want

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.624, Wordsworth Editions

• Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dark, Reflection, Moon

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.26, GENERAL PRESS

• I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.

  Oscar Wilde

  Bags, Genius, Four

• It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pain, Struggle, Silly

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.20, GENERAL PRESS

• M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Genius, Zola

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.925, Wordsworth Editions

• Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Learning, Genius

• Genius is born-not paid

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Genius

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.202, Courier Corporation

• From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Views, Genius

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1012, Wordsworth Editions

• Genius lasts longer than beauty

  Oscar Wilde

  Genius, Lasts, Intellectualism

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.16, Diversion Books

• Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

  Oscar Wilde

  Drama, Genius, Talent

  Quoted in Andre Gide, Letter to his mother, 30 Jan. 1895

• this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

  Oscar Wilde

  Night, Genius

• Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

  Oscar Wilde

  Genius, Mediocrity, Pay

  Oscar Wilde (1971). “Witticisms of Oscar Wilde”

• There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

  Oscar Wilde

  Doubt, Genius, Lasts

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.15, Xist Publishing

• I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Genius, Talent

• Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Philosophy, Dark Water

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.25, Oxford University Press on Demand

• I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Genius, Talent

• When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

  Oscar Wilde

  Age, Immigration, Genius

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