Oscar Wilde Quotes About Greek

• To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Should Have, Clothes, Greek

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1670, Delphi Classics

• We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspiration, Greek, Achieve

• Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews”, p.107, University of Illinois Press

• Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

  Oscar Wilde

  Greek, Facts, Modern

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.975, Wordsworth Editions

• Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

  Oscar Wilde

  Essence, Greek, Dresses

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.150, Wordsworth Editions

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