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

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Genius Quotes, Talent Quotes

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when...

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when...

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime

Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other...

Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other...

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When...

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When...

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been...

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been...

No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is...

No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is...

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you...

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you...

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his...

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his...

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that,...

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that,...

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

Egotism is an alphabet of one letter

Egotism is an alphabet of one letter

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is...

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is...