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Oscar Wilde

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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.


— Oscar Wilde


#mistakes #paradox #timidity #wisdom #wisdom

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.


— Oscar Wilde


#gender-roles #suffrage #womens-rights #men

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.


— Oscar Wilde


#discretion #secret #trust #truth #woman

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.


— Oscar Wilde


#benevolence #epigram #reputation #wild

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.


— Oscar Wilde


#away #many #might #others #pick

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.


— Oscar Wilde


#called #dangerous #idea #unworthy

The only good thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.


— Oscar Wilde


#epigram #humor #humor

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.


— Oscar Wilde


#just #nothing #senses #soul

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.


— Oscar Wilde


#ended #fiction #good #happily #means

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.


— Oscar Wilde


#dorian-gray #marriage #men #relationships #women






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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