Quotes about Authenticity
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
- Oscar Wilde
It is perfectly monstrous, he said, at last, the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
- Oscar Wilde
Was there anything so real as words?
- Oscar Wilde
The only real people are the people who never existed, and if a novelist is base enough to go to life for his personages he should at least pretend that they are creations, and not boast of them as copies.
- Oscar Wilde
All imitation in morals and in life is wrong. Through the streets of Jerusalem at the present day crawls one who is mad and carries a wooden cross on his shoulders. He is a symbol of the lives that are marred by imitation.
- Oscar Wilde
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
- Oscar Wilde
The aim of life is self-development. To realise one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self.
- Oscar Wilde
Sincerity is the last refuge of the shallow.
- Oscar Wilde
The truth is rarely pure
- Oscar Wilde
Academic training in beauty is a sham. When we love a woman, we don't start measuring her legs.
- Pablo Picasso
Teach me neither to proffer nor receive cheap praise.
- Dale Carnegie
Use what language you will,' said Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'you can never say anything but what you are.
- Dale Carnegie