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Oscar Wilde Quotes about History

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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Oscar Wilde
Eye, Men, History
"The Soul of Man Under Socialism". Essay by Oscar Wilde, 1891.

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

Oscar Wilde
History, Duty
1891 Intentions, 'The Critic as Artist'.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

Oscar Wilde
Men, History, Sides
Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

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

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

Oscar Wilde
Real, Character, History
Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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