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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking 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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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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Yes poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.
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Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207
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Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!
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People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.
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Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
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Every thing to be true must become a religion.
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When good Americans die, they go to Paris Where do bad Americans go? They stay in America
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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I live in terror of not being misunderstood.
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Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.
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With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized
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We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
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One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.
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I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.
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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
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It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.
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