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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.
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Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD.
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Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go others, whenever they go.
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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
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There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.
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It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.
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Don't give a woman advice one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.
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If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.
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You and I will always be friends. Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.
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[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.
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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
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It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
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When I was young, I was no one. Now, I'm worldwilde.
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Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.
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God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.
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