Oscar Wilde
Irish writer
Lived from: 1854 - 1900
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
Ireland
Born: 16 october 1854 Died: 30 november 1900
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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
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This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.
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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
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Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little always share.
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Those whom the gods love grow young.
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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
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Time is waste of money.
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To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
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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 give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
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To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness.
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To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance.
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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.
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To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
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