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Oscar Wilde

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I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.


— Oscar Wilde


#friendship

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.


— Oscar Wilde


#strange

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.


— Oscar Wilde


#having #many #monogamy #same #too

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.


— Oscar Wilde


#sin

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor #oscar-wilde #truth #humor

They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.


— Oscar Wilde


#lifestyle

I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.


— Oscar Wilde


#antipathy #women #love

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .


— Oscar Wilde


#tragedy #words #life

When good Americans die, they go to Paris.


— Oscar Wilde


#paris

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.


— Oscar Wilde


#mystery #true #visible #world






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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