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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

Oscar Wilde - Quotes

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
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life

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
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life

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
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music

I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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genius

Men marry because they are tired women, because they are curious both are disappointed.
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
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courage

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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life

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
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