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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
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All art is quite useless.
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
A phrase often attributed to Oscar Wilde - Quotation of uncertain origin /





How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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True friends stab you in the front.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
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Hatred is blind, as well as love.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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