Oscar Wilde Quotes About Talent

• 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

• Talent borrows, genius steals!

  Oscar Wilde

  Genius, Talent, Stealing

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Genius, Talent

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Learning, Genius

• 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

• 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

• I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Genius, Talent

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Genius, Talent

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