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Oscar Wilde

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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.


— Oscar Wilde


#appreciation #hidden-things #wild

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.


— Oscar Wilde


#barbarism #between #civilization #country #decadence

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.


— Oscar Wilde


#paradox #truth #wisdom #age

There is no sin except stupidity.


— Oscar Wilde


#sin #stupidity

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.


— Oscar Wilde


#life #paradox #art

Everything in moderation, including moderation.


— Oscar Wilde


#motto #wild

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.


— Oscar Wilde


#seriousness #humor

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.


— Oscar Wilde


#epigram #tabloid-journalism #wisdom #wisdom

Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor






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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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