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Oscar Wilde

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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.


— Oscar Wilde


#does #man #motives #noblest #stupid

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.


— Oscar Wilde


#disliked #friends #his #intensely

One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.


— Oscar Wilde


#love #marriage #humor

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.


— Oscar Wilde


#optimism #sheer #terror

You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?


— Oscar Wilde


#wild

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.


— Oscar Wilde


#life

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.


— Oscar Wilde


#wit #wrong

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.


— Oscar Wilde


#every #feeling #painted #portrait #sitter

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.


— Oscar Wilde


#history #change

All art is quite useless.


— Oscar Wilde


#quite #useless






About Oscar Wilde

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Did you know about Oscar Wilde?

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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