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Oscar Wilde

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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.


— Oscar Wilde


#artists #art

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.


— Oscar Wilde


#reason #humor

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor

I'm too old to know everything


— Oscar Wilde


#humour #youthful-arrogance #arrogance

You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.


— Oscar Wilde


#inspirational #knowledge #philosophy #inspirational

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.


— Oscar Wilde


#giving #ignorance #journalism #keeps #opinions

Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.


— Oscar Wilde


#life

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.


— Oscar Wilde


#love

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.


— Oscar Wilde


#wisdom #age

If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?


— Oscar Wilde


#philosphy #life






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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