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Oscar Wilde

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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.


— Oscar Wilde


#insults #people

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.


— Oscar Wilde


#humour #beauty

To define is to limit.


— Oscar Wilde


#lord-henry-wotton #wilde #wild

Every woman is a rebel.


— Oscar Wilde


#women

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.


— Oscar Wilde


#face #fiction #her #his #man

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.


— Oscar Wilde


#always #feel #i #i always #me

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


— Oscar Wilde


#philosophy #attitude

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.


— Oscar Wilde


#friendship

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.


— Oscar Wilde


#love

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.


— Oscar Wilde


#read






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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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