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Oscar Wilde

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I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself do not interest me. The have not got the charm of novelty.


— Oscar Wilde


#love

You should treat the trivial things in life seriously and the serious things in life with a sincere and studied triviality


— Oscar Wilde


#life

But love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about it that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent.


— Oscar Wilde


#love

A arte é a mais intensa forma de individualismo que o mundo conhece.


— Oscar Wilde


#individuality #inspirational #world #art

Besides, every experience is of value, and whatever one may say against marriage, it is certainly an experience.


— Oscar Wilde


#witticism #experience

You must admit, Harry, that women give to men the very gold of their lives.' 'Possibly,' he sighed, 'but they invariably want it back in such very small change.


— Oscar Wilde


#change

There is an unknown land full of strange flowers and subtle perfumes, a land of which it is joy of all joys to dream, a land where all things are perfect and poisonous.


— Oscar Wilde


#dreams

Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.


— Oscar Wilde


#morality #beauty

Just because a man will die for a thing doesn't make it true


— Oscar Wilde


#inspirational

A grapefruit is ionly a lemon that saw an oppurtunity and took advantage of it.


— Oscar Wilde


#inspirational #inspirational






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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