Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Awareness Quotes, Reality Quotes, Self Quotes, Truth Quotes

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is...

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is...

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is...

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is...

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It...

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It...

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to...

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to...

Hearts live by being wounded.

Hearts live by being wounded.

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Don't give a woman advice: one should never give a woman anything she can't wear...

Don't give a woman advice: one should never give a woman anything she can't wear...

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

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

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love...

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love...

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only rational method...

They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only rational method...

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot...

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot...

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value...

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value...