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Oscar Wilde

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It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.


— Oscar Wilde


#logic

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.


— Oscar Wilde


#humour #nature

She is a peacock in everything but beauty!


— Oscar Wilde


#humor #insult #beauty

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.


— Oscar Wilde


#artists

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor #literature #reading #humor

Love is easily killed.


— Oscar Wilde


#love

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.


— Oscar Wilde


#everybody #incapable #learning #taken #teaching

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.


— Oscar Wilde


#family

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.


— Oscar Wilde


#sanity

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable


— Oscar Wilde


#wit #men






About Oscar Wilde

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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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