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Oscar Wilde

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.


— Oscar Wilde


#cause #go #others #some #whenever

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.


— Oscar Wilde


#admirable #from time to time #knowing #nothing #remember

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.


— Oscar Wilde


#nothing

I can resist anything except temptation.


— Oscar Wilde


#wild

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.


— Oscar Wilde


#women

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.


— Oscar Wilde


#people

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.


— Oscar Wilde


#quotation #wit #intelligence

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.


— Oscar Wilde


#bad #charming #divide #either #good

Who, being loved, is poor?


— Oscar Wilde


#being #loved #poor #who

I have nothing to declare except my genius.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor






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Did you know about Oscar Wilde?

One evening after discussing depictions of Salome throughout history he returned to his hotel to notice a blank copybook lying on the desk and it occurred to him to write down what he had been saying. " which Wilde had begun in 1887 was first publiOscar Wilded in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in July 1889. tour of Patience and selling this most charming aesthete to the American public.

At the turn of the 1890s he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays and incorporated themes of decadence duplicity and beauty into his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. As a spokesman for aestheticism he tried his hand at various literary activities: he publiOscar Wilded a book of poems lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art" and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist.

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