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Oscar Wilde

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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.


— Oscar Wilde


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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.


— Oscar Wilde


#get #i #i can #only #resist

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.


— Oscar Wilde


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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.


— Oscar Wilde


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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.


— Oscar Wilde


#am #i #i am #important #important thing

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.


— Oscar Wilde


#give #mistakes #name #our #simply

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.


— Oscar Wilde


#before #dawn #dreamer #find #his

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.


— Oscar Wilde


#dead #flowers #garden #heart #keep

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.


— Oscar Wilde


#choice #chooses #evils #pessimist #two

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.


— Oscar Wilde


#indiscreet #never #questions #sometimes






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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