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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
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Be moderate in all things, including moderation.
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What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)
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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
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Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
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Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.
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Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?
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But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.
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Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.
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To be popular one must be a mediocrity. Not with Women, said the duchess, shaking her head and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all. It seems to me that we never do anything else, murmered Dorian.
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The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.
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Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.
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Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.
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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
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As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.
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I have a simple taste, only the best.
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Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.
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There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.
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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
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