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Oscar Wilde

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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.


— Oscar Wilde


#failure #last #refuge

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.


— Oscar Wilde


#vicious #virtue

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.


— Oscar Wilde


#calmness #nothing #than

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.


— Oscar Wilde


#adopt #dislike #morality #people #personally

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.


— Oscar Wilde


#contradict #other #people #themselves #well

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.


— Oscar Wilde


#everything #knows #man #nothing #price

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.


— Oscar Wilde


#certain #conditions #look #object #ugly

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.


— Oscar Wilde


#each #kingdom #know #more #our

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.


— Oscar Wilde


#bad #beginning #best #ending #far

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.


— Oscar Wilde


#i #life #long #my life #too






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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