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Oscar Wilde

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Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.


— Oscar Wilde


#youth #age

If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor #youth #age

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.


— Oscar Wilde


#cowardice

You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]


— Oscar Wilde


#love #secrets #trust #love

Did you hear what I was playing, Lane? I didn't think it polite to listen, sir.


— Oscar Wilde


#music #humor

Genie währt länger als Schönheit.


— Oscar Wilde


#genius #beauty

In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.


— Oscar Wilde


#pleasure #wickedness #humor

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.


— Oscar Wilde


#beauty #colours #oscar-wilde #painting #the-picture-of-dorian-gray

What nonsense people talk about happy marriages!" exclaimed Lord Henry. " A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.


— Oscar Wilde


#love

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.


— Oscar Wilde


#age






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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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