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Oscar Wilde

1854 - 1900

Poet, Irish Author and Playwright

Oscar Fingal O’Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s.

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I can resist anything except temptation

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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

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I can resist anything except temptation.

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I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.

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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.

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I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.

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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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No good deed goes unpunished.

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About Oscar Wilde

Notable Works

Oscar Wilde’s brilliant literary legacy is anchored by his masterpiece novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, which explores aestheticism, morality, and double lives. He achieved massive theatrical success with sharp, satirical society comedies, most notably his witty masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest. Additionally, his tragic poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol and his moving fairy tale The Happy Prince showcase his remarkable emotional depth and mastery over diverse literary forms.

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