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Oscar Wilde

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Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.


— Oscar Wilde


#wild

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.


— Oscar Wilde


#life

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.


— Oscar Wilde


#dramatist #morality #novelist #poet #wild

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.


— Oscar Wilde


#man #woman #love

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.


— Oscar Wilde


#classes #curse #drinking

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.


— Oscar Wilde


#cards #fairly #play #should #winning

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.


— Oscar Wilde


#enmity #friendship #love #men #men and women

She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.


— Oscar Wilde


#weakness

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.


— Oscar Wilde


#rich

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.


— Oscar Wilde


#bad-reviews #self-publishing #writing #men






About Oscar Wilde

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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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