Oscar Wilde
Irish writer
Lived from: 1854 - 1900
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: Ireland
Born: 16 october 1854 Died: 30 november 1900
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
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Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
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He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.
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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Just as those who do not love Plato more than truth cannot pass beyond the threshold of Academe, so those who do not love beauty more than truth never know the inmost shrine of art.
The Decay of Lying (1889)― Oscar Wilde -
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
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Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
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People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
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Those whom the gods love grow young.
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To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance.
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What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
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What of Art?
- It is a malady.
Love?
- An Illusion.
Religion?
- The fashionable substitute for Belief.
You are a sceptic.
- Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
What are you?
- To define is to limit.― Oscar Wilde -
When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.
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When Christ says, ‘Forgive your enemies,’ it is not for the sake of the enemy, but for one’s own sake that he says so, and because love is more beautiful than hate.
The Profundis― Oscar Wilde -
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
― Oscar Wilde
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