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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Personality

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It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

Oscar Wilde
Beauty, Heart, Personality

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

Oscar Wilde
Perfect, Personality, Rebellion
Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1038, GENERAL PRESS

I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

Oscar Wilde
Personality, Misunderstood, Being Misunderstood
Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.971, Wordsworth Editions

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

Oscar Wilde
Personality, Intellectual, Intelligence
Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.8, Mondial

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

Oscar Wilde
Art, Eye, Personality
Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.17, Prestwick House Inc

It is personalities not principles that move the age.

Oscar Wilde
Moving, Writing, Personality
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.217, Oxford University Press on Demand

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

Oscar Wilde
Drunk, Poetry, Personality

While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

Oscar Wilde
Artist, Personality, Firsts
Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1689, GENERAL PRESS

Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

Oscar Wilde
Thinking, Personality, Religion
Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.168, First Avenue Editions

Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

Oscar Wilde
Personality, Important, Looks
Oscar Wilde (2009). “The Happy Prince and Other Stories”, p.84, Collector's Library

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