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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.
Oscar Wilde

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.
Oscar Wilde

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Oscar Wilde

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.
Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

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.
Oscar Wilde

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde

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.
Oscar Wilde

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
Oscar Wilde

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Oscar Wilde

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.
Oscar Wilde

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
Oscar Wilde

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.
Oscar Wilde

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Oscar Wilde

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
Oscar Wilde

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.
Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde - Quotes

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