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Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect.
Oscar Wilde
The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde
I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.
Oscar Wilde
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Oscar Wilde
Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.
Oscar Wilde
The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
Oscar Wilde
Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
Oscar Wilde
I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.
Oscar Wilde
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit touch it and the bloom is gone.
Oscar Wilde
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
Oscar Wilde
The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.
Oscar Wilde
No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
Oscar Wilde
The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.
Oscar Wilde
When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. and the portrait in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty. p 349
Oscar Wilde
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
Some things are too important to be taken seriously.
Oscar Wilde
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.
Oscar Wilde
I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.
Oscar Wilde
Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!
Oscar Wilde
Irony is wasted on the stupid
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