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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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  • Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
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  • With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.
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  • Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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  • Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
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  • Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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  • Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes.
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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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  • Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
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  • Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
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  • Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
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  • Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.
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  • Yes; the public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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  • Yet each man kills the thing he loves
    By each let this be heard.
    Some do it with a bitter look,
    Some with a flattering word.
    The coward does it with a kiss,
    The brave man with a sword!
    The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1897)
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  • You know what a woman's curiosity is. Almost as great as a man's!
    An Ideal Husband (1895)
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  • You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
    The Picture of Dorian Gray
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  • You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.
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  • Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
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  • As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
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  • As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
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  • A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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