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Oscar Wilde

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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.


— Oscar Wilde


#hell #world #world

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.


— Oscar Wilde


#nothing

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.


— Oscar Wilde


#enemies #friends #intellect #looks #beauty

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.


— Oscar Wilde


#respect

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor #men #women #humor

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.


— Oscar Wilde


#art

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.


— Oscar Wilde


#parents #forgiveness

The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor






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Did you know about Oscar Wilde?

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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