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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Irish writer

Lived from: 1854 - 1900

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagIreland

Born: 16 october 1854 Died: 30 november 1900

  • My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
  • All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
  • When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky.
  • To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
  • On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
  • Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.
  • If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
  • The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
  • They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
  • The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
  • In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
  • Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
  • There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
  • When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.
  • Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
  • We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
  • It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
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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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  • By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
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  • For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
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  • Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
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  • Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
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  • I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
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  • I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) h. 15
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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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  • If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
    An Ideal Husband (1895) Act IV.
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  • In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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  • In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.
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  • In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.
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  • Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
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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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  • Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
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  • No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.
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  • Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.
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  • Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
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  • The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.
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  • The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
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What are the most famous quotes from Oscar Wilde?

The two most famous quotes from Oscar Wilde are:

  • "Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
  • "By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful."

When did Oscar Wilde live?

Oscar Wilde was born in 1854 and died in the year 1900.