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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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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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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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I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.
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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.
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The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
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Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.
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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
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A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
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LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.
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And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.
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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.
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Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.
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I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.
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If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.
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