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Oscar Wilde

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I always pass on good advice, it is the only thing to do with it.It is never of any use to oneself.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor #humor

How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!


— Oscar Wilde


#women #life

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor #inspirational #truth #humor

It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.


— Oscar Wilde


#charming #compliments #men

God and other artists are always a little obscure.....


— Oscar Wilde


#quote-of-all-times #art

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.


— Oscar Wilde


#art

LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?


— Oscar Wilde


#humor #humor

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.


— Oscar Wilde


#change

Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor #marriage #women #humor

Chaque fois qu'on produit un effet, on se donne un ennemi. Il faut rester médiocre pour être populaire.


— Oscar Wilde


#friendship






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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