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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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  • Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
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  • Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.
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  • Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.
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  • Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
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  • Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
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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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  • Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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  • Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.
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  • Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
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  • Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
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  • She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.
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  • She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.
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  • She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
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  • She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
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  • Skepticism is the beginning of Faith.
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  • Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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  • Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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  • Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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  • Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope.
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  • Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
    The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891)
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