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Oscar Wilde

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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.


— Oscar Wilde


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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.


— Oscar Wilde


#artist #cease #did #ever #great

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.


— Oscar Wilde


#excellent #excellent man #friends #him #his

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.


— Oscar Wilde


#accurate #age #calculating #ever #her

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.


— Oscar Wilde


#down #everything #except #good #good reputation

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.


— Oscar Wilde


#continue #except #her #love #loved

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.


— Oscar Wilde


#cast #play #stage #world

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


— Oscar Wilde


#individualism #intense #known #mode #most

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.


— Oscar Wilde


#cease #fascination #long #looked #popular

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.


— Oscar Wilde


#defects #enough #even #everything #forgive






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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