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Oscar Wilde

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You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor #vegetarianism #humor

Duty is what one expects from others.


— Oscar Wilde


#duty #life #life

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.


— Oscar Wilde


#historians #literature #description

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.


— Oscar Wilde


#oscar-wilde #wallpaper #death

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.


— Oscar Wilde


#procrastination #procrastination

Do you smoke? Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. I am glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind. There are far too many idle men in London as it is.


— Oscar Wilde


#smoking #men

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.


— Oscar Wilde


#science #religion

Friendship...is not something you learn in school,but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.


— Oscar Wilde


#friendship

I really don't see what is so romantic about proposing. One may be accepted - one usually is, I believe - and then the excitement is ended. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.


— Oscar Wilde


#romantic

A flower blossoms for its own joy.


— Oscar Wilde


#flowers #happiness #joy #beauty






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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