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Oscar Wilde

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Women are made to be loved, not understood.


— Oscar Wilde


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I have nothing to declare except my genuis.


— Oscar Wilde


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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.


— Oscar Wilde


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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.


— Oscar Wilde


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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.


— Oscar Wilde


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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.


— Oscar Wilde


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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.


— Oscar Wilde


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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.


— Oscar Wilde


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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.


— Oscar Wilde


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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.


— Oscar Wilde


#dead #dying #i #sick #want






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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