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Oscar Wilde

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


— Oscar Wilde


#love

Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.


— Oscar Wilde


#art

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.


— Oscar Wilde


#wisdom #age

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.


— Oscar Wilde


#money

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.


— Oscar Wilde


#art #art forms #being #forms #greatest

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor #literature #lying #romance #humor

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.


— Oscar Wilde


#wilde #writing #life

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor #humor

The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.


— Oscar Wilde


#education






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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