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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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  • How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
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  • Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
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  • Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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  • Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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  • There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.
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