Oscar Wilde

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
-- Abstinence


Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.
-- Academia


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


The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
-- Acting And Actors


While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
-- Acting And Actors

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
-- Acting And Actors


No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
-- Action


Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
-- Action



Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit