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

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

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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.

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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

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A good friend will always stab you in the front.

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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

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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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