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Oscar Wilde

Read through the most famous quotes from Oscar Wilde




I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.


— Oscar Wilde


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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.


— Oscar Wilde


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It is always the unreadable that occurs.


— Oscar Wilde


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Everything popular is wrong.


— Oscar Wilde


#popular #wrong

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.


— Oscar Wilde


#avoided #convincing #often #vulgar

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.


— Oscar Wilde


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One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.


— Oscar Wilde


#lead #life #often #real #real life

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.


— Oscar Wilde


#grown #happily #life #like #looks

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.


— Oscar Wilde


#i #i am #know #like #only

Hatred is blind, as well as love.


— Oscar Wilde


#hatred #love #well






About Oscar Wilde

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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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