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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet [more author details]

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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.: Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.: Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.: Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
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Only the shallow know themselves.: Oscar Wilde, Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young, 1882
Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there.: Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.: Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882
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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.: Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist
But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.: Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.: Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.: Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.: Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891
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One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.: Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891
Do not speak ill of society, Algie. Only people who can't get in do that.: Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.: Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
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To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.: Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.: Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.: Oscar Wilde, The Model Millionaire, 1912
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A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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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. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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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.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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