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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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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.

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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.

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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

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You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

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Hearts are made to be broken.

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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

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It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

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I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

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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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