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Oscar Wilde

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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.


— Oscar Wilde


#always #annoys #forgive #much #nothing

True friends stab you in the front.


— Oscar Wilde


#friends #front #true #true friends #you

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.


— Oscar Wilde


#astray #emotions #lead #us

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.


— Oscar Wilde


#give #i #i see #little #lives

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.


— Oscar Wilde


#being #life #one thing #only #talked

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.


— Oscar Wilde


#always #love #marry #never #reason

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.


— Oscar Wilde


#beautiful #better #than #ugly

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.


— Oscar Wilde


#acquaintances #cannot #careful #characters #choice

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.


— Oscar Wilde


#does #his #like #man #mothers

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


— Oscar Wilde


#creating #god #his #i #i think






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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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