Creative Quotations from Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Oscar Wilde
(1856-1900) born on Oct 16

Anglo-Irish "playwright, novelist". "He was noted for his flamboyant witty, sophisticated plays, e.g., "The Importance of Being Ernest," 1895."

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

"The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last."

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."

"No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true."

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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"Letter, 16 Aug 1890, to the editor of the Scots Observer,"
R:	"In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."
A:	"In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
N:	"The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891"
K:	"The Portrait of Mr. W. H., ch. 1 (first published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, July 1889)."