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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes
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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
Oscar Wilde
For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.
Oscar Wilde
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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All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.
Oscar Wilde
The critic has to educate the public the artist has to educate the critic.
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The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery
Oscar Wilde
Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar
Oscar Wilde
It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.
Oscar Wilde
Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.
Oscar Wilde
Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.
Oscar Wilde
Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
Oscar Wilde
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.
Oscar Wilde
Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.
Oscar Wilde
Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.
Oscar Wilde
The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wilde
I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips
Oscar Wilde
To be popular I must be mediocre.
Oscar Wilde
No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.
Oscar Wilde
