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Oscar Wilde

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The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.


— Oscar Wilde


#perspective #perception

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor #humor

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.


— Oscar Wilde


#honesty #oscar-wilde #words #writing #honesty

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious


— Oscar Wilde


#nationalism #patriotism #virtue

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise


— Oscar Wilde


#inspirational #success #inspirational

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.


— Oscar Wilde


#art

Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.


— Oscar Wilde


#drinking #alcohol

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.


— Oscar Wilde


#only #our #perfection #realise #through

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.


— Oscar Wilde


#literature

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.


— Oscar Wilde


#inspirational






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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