Quotes by Oscar Wilde

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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  • As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.
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  • As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
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  • As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
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  • Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
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  • Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
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  • Bad manners make a journalist.
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  • Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
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  • Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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  • But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself.
    The picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
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  • By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
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  • Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.
    A Woman of No Importance (1893)
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  • Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
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  • Culture depends on cookery. For myself, the only immortality I desire is to invent a new sauce.
    Vera, or the Nihilists (1883)
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  • Cynicism is knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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  • Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
    The Canterville Ghost
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  • Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
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  • Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.
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  • Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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  • Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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  • Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.
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