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Oscar Wilde
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Biography : Irish playwright, novelist, essayist and poet.
Born: 1854 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Oscar Wilde






It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.
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Those whom the gods love grow young.
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
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When good Americans die they go to Paris.
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals.
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