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Oscar Wilde

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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied


— Oscar Wilde


#satisfaction #women #beauty

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.


— Oscar Wilde


#brothers #death #friendship #death

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.


— Oscar Wilde


#practicality #proverbs #wise

Each of us has heaven and hell in him...


— Oscar Wilde


#heaven

I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses.


— Oscar Wilde


#sex #sexuality #life

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.


— Oscar Wilde


#nothing #talk #love

I never change, except in my affections.


— Oscar Wilde


#change

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.


— Oscar Wilde


#sorrow

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.


— Oscar Wilde


#difference #journalism #literature #read #unreadable

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.


— Oscar Wilde


#men #reform #women #humor






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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