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Oscar Wilde


Irish
October 16, 1854
Dramatist
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Writing bores me so.


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Tags: Me Writing Bores
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All art is quite useless.


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Tags: Art Quite Useless
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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.


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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.


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Biography lends to death a new terror.


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Tags: Death New Terror
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I can resist everything except temptation.


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True friends stab you in the front.


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Tags: You Friends True
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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.


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Tags: Hope Will Last
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.


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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.


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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.


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Tags: About Us Carry
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.


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Tags: Us Lead Emotions
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.


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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.


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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.


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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.


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Tags: Always Your Them
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.


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Tags: Many Too Same
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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.


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Tags: Never Man Believe
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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.


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


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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.


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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.


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Tags: Were Fiction Duty
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.


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Tags: About Life Thing
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.


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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.


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Tags: Will Look Certain
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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.


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Tags: Who Only Art
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.


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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.


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Tags: Women Men Because
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.


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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.


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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.


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Tags: Always Thing Man
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I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.


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Tags: Up Every Day
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.


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Tags: Like May Both
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.


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Tags: People Way Which
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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Tags: Life Only Other
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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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Tags: Over Use Cannot
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.


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


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Tags: Good People Bad
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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.


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Tags: Than Years Own