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Oscar Wilde

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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.


— Oscar Wilde


#uncle-tom-s-cabin #victorian #wilde #witty #death

I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.


— Oscar Wilde


#living #oscar-wilde #lifestyle

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.


— Oscar Wilde


#expect #expect the unexpected #intellect #modern #shows

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.


— Oscar Wilde


#religion

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.


— Oscar Wilde


#humility #love

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.


— Oscar Wilde


#gothic-horror-fiction #hedonism #temptation

Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor #death

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.


— Oscar Wilde


#husband #jealousy #love #wife #women

Bad artists always admire each others work.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.


— Oscar Wilde


#far #imitates #life #more #than






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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