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Oscar Wilde

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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.


— Oscar Wilde


#clothing #greeks #humor #soul #wilde

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.


— Oscar Wilde


#history #oscar-wilde #historical

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.


— Oscar Wilde


#style #art

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about it's use. It is hitting below the intellect.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.


— Oscar Wilde


#poverty

I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar and often convincing.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.


— Oscar Wilde


#personality #vanity #wisdom #vanity

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.


— Oscar Wilde


#life #attitude

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.


— Oscar Wilde


#little #nowadays #sad #sad thing #thing

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.


— Oscar Wilde


#resistance






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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