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Oscar Wilde

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If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties.


— Oscar Wilde


#business #dinner-party #humor #business

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.


— Oscar Wilde


#life #life

Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood


— Oscar Wilde


#life

Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.


— Oscar Wilde


#immorality #attitude

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.


— Oscar Wilde


#art

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.


— Oscar Wilde


#intelligence #intelligence

Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that


— Oscar Wilde


#the-picture-of-dorian-gray #love

It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.


— Oscar Wilde


#basil-hallward #art

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.


— Oscar Wilde


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

And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.


— Oscar Wilde


#attitude






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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