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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.
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It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.
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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
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Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.
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If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)
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America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.
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Nothing worth knowing can be taught.
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Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
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He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.
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It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.
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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.
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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
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Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.
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