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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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A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.

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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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Every woman is a rebel.

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Who, being loved, is poor?

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Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.

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Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.

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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

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

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I am not young enough to know everything.

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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.

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Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.

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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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