Oscar Wilde

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Biography : Irish playwright, novelist, essayist and poet.
Born: 1854 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Oscar Wilde - Quotes

Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Oscar Wilde

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Oscar Wilde

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar Wilde

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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truth

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Oscar Wilde

Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.
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happiness

Those whom the gods love grow young.
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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love

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Oscar Wilde

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
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emotion

When good Americans die they go to Paris.
Oscar Wilde

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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love

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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life

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

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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love

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
Oscar Wilde

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

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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death

Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals.
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