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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Reading

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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

Oscar Wilde
Book, Reading, Writing

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oscar Wilde
Inspirational, Anger, Reading
The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 19 (1891)

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Oscar Wilde
Wisdom, Book, Reading

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Oscar Wilde
Book, Reading, Writing

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

Oscar Wilde
Reading, Culture, Half
Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.10

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde
Book, Reading, Writing
Oscar Wilde (1950). “Essays”, Ayer Company Pub

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

Oscar Wilde
Book, Reading, Writing
Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.570, Oxford University Press

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

Oscar Wilde
Spring, Book, Reading
Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Prose of Oscar Wilde”, p.186, Cosimo, Inc.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Oscar Wilde
Book, Reading, Writing
The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

Oscar Wilde
Book, Reading, Writing
Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories”, p.45, Penguin

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

Oscar Wilde
Book, Reading, Writing
Oscar Wilde (2014). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.37, BoD – Books on Demand

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