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Oscar Wilde

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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.


— Oscar Wilde


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The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.


— Oscar Wilde


#london #man #who #world

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.


— Oscar Wilde


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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.


— Oscar Wilde


#art #equally #impartially #only #schools

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.


— Oscar Wilde


#classes #commercial #hope #live #memory

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.


— Oscar Wilde


#commons #deal #does #great #great deal

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.


— Oscar Wilde


#ask #dramatist #give #look #realism

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.


— Oscar Wilde


#good #kin #life #makes #modern

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.


— Oscar Wilde


#deal #great #great deal #knows #much

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.


— Oscar Wilde


#always #infinitely #mean #other #people






About Oscar Wilde

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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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