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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

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  • The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
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  • The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
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  • The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
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  • There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
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  • There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.
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  • There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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  • Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.
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  • To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
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  • To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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  • To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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  • Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.
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  • 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.
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  • Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.
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  • There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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