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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Genius

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

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

Genius, Talent

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

Genius, Mediocrity, Tribute

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

Bags, Genius, Four

Talent borrows, genius steals!

Genius, Talent, Stealing

Genius lasts longer than beauty

Genius, Lasts, Intellectualism

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

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

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.

Drama, Genius, Talent

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

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

Education, Pain, Genius

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.15, Oxford University Press on Demand

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

Writing, Genius, Talent

Genius is born-not paid

Funny, Witty, Genius

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

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

Genius, Talent

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.

Thinking, Genius, Want

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

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

Art, Genius, Talent

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.

Writing, Views, Genius

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

Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

Genius, Mediocrity, Pay

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

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

Art, Genius, Zola

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

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.

Age, Immigration, Genius

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

Night, Genius

There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

Doubt, Genius, Lasts

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

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