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Oscar Wilde

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Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman


— Oscar Wilde


#satire #humor

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.


— Oscar Wilde


#passions #dreams

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor #humor

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it


— Oscar Wilde


#forgiveness

LADY BRACKNELL To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.


— Oscar Wilde


#engagement #humor #marriage #relationships #humor

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.


— Oscar Wilde


#humanity #life #life

Even things that are true can be proved.


— Oscar Wilde


#truth #irony

In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.


— Oscar Wilde


#press #men

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.


— Oscar Wilde


#life

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.


— Oscar Wilde


#critic #educate #public






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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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