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Oscar Wilde

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Life is too important to be taken seriously.


— Oscar Wilde


#life

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.


— Oscar Wilde


#beauty #humor #making-love #plainness #women

Time is a waste of money.


— Oscar Wilde


#time #money

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor #humor

Experience is a question of instinct about life.


— Oscar Wilde


#life #experience

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.


— Oscar Wilde


#inspirational #pleasure #age

This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again.


— Oscar Wilde


#writing #humor

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.


— Oscar Wilde


#life

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.


— Oscar Wilde


#esthetics #lying #art






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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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