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Oscar Wilde

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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.


— Oscar Wilde


#calls #deceiving #others #romance #world

nothing that is worth knowing can be taught


— Oscar Wilde


#experience #knowledge #education

A kiss may ruin a human life


— Oscar Wilde


#life #love #life

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.


— Oscar Wilde


#society

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.


— Oscar Wilde


#life-lessons #inspirational

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.


— Oscar Wilde


#food #foodie #food

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.


— Oscar Wilde


#oscar-wilde #america

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.


— Oscar Wilde


#action

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.


— Oscar Wilde


#money

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.


— Oscar Wilde


#feelings #gentleman #hurts #never #who






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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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