Oscar Wilde Quotes About Mediocrity

• Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

  Oscar Wilde

  Greatness, Mediocrity, Pay

• Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving, Enemy, Mediocrity

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.812, GENERAL PRESS

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Genius, Mediocrity, Tribute

• Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

  Oscar Wilde

  Greatness, Mediocrity, Pay

• To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mediocrity

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.116, Courier Corporation

• Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

  Oscar Wilde

  Genius, Mediocrity, Pay

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

• To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.

  Oscar Wilde

  Eye, Men, Mediocrity

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.136, Wordsworth Editions

• Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

  Oscar Wilde

  Revenge, Mediocrity, World

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.202, Courier Corporation

• Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Perfect, Progress

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.47, Wordsworth Editions

• The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Talking, Mediocrity, Ease

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Artist As Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.433, Random House

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