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Oscar Wilde

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.


— Oscar Wilde


#sinister #music

I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.


— Oscar Wilde


#paraphrased #self-expression #death

This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.


— Oscar Wilde


#taste #wallpaper #wild

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.


— Oscar Wilde


#death

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.


— Oscar Wilde


#dangerous #dangerous thing #deal #fatal #great

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)


— Oscar Wilde


#acting

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.


— Oscar Wilde


#better #else #i #like #persons

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.


— Oscar Wilde


#marriage

I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.


— Oscar Wilde


#wild

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.


— Oscar Wilde


#everything #except #forgives #genius #public






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One evening after discussing depictions of Salome throughout history he returned to his hotel to notice a blank copybook lying on the desk and it occurred to him to write down what he had been saying. " which Wilde had begun in 1887 was first publiOscar Wilded in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in July 1889. tour of Patience and selling this most charming aesthete to the American public.

At the turn of the 1890s he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays and incorporated themes of decadence duplicity and beauty into his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. As a spokesman for aestheticism he tried his hand at various literary activities: he publiOscar Wilded a book of poems lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art" and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist.

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