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Oscar Wilde

Read through the most famous quotes from Oscar Wilde




You can never be overdressed or overeducated.


— Oscar Wilde


#fashion #education

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.


— Oscar Wilde


#love

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.


— Oscar Wilde


#lives #most #opinions #other #passions

A good friend will always stab you in the front.


— Oscar Wilde


#friends

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.


— Oscar Wilde


#dreams #imagination #dreams

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.


— Oscar Wilde


#life #money #imagination

I am not young enough to know everything.


— Oscar Wilde


#enough #everything #i #i am #know

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.


— Oscar Wilde


#past

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.


— Oscar Wilde


#courage






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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