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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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  • To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
    The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
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  • True friends stab you in the front.
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  • Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
    A Woman of No Importance
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  • Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
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  • Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
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  • We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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  • We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
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  • We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
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  • We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
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  • We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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  • We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
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  • We really have everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
    The Canterville Ghost
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  • 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.
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  • Well, there IS a good deal to be said for blushing, if one can do it at the proper moment.
    A Woman of No Importance (1893)
    ― Oscar Wilde
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  • 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.
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  • What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.
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  • What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
    ― Oscar Wilde
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  • What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
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  • What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.
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  • What of Art?
    - It is a malady.
    Love?
    - An Illusion.
    Religion?
    - The fashionable substitute for Belief.
    You are a sceptic.
    - Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
    What are you?
    - To define is to limit.
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