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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.
Oscar Wilde
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!
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America is one long expectoration.
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An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.
Oscar Wilde
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
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A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
Oscar Wilde
He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?
Oscar Wilde
In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.
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The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.
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It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame.
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All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?
Oscar Wilde
Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.
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I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.
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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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When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
Oscar Wilde
The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.
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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?
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