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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 exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
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  • The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
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  • The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.
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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 first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
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  • The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
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  • The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.
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  • The greatest of all sins is stupidity.
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  • The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.”
    The picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
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  • The heart was made to be broken.
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  • The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.
    The picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
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  • The history of women is the history of 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.
    A Woman of No Importance Act 3
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  • The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
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  • The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
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  • The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
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  • The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
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  • The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
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  • The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
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  • The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
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  • The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
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