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- There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891, preface
- The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Model Millionaire, 1912
- Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Why was I born with such contemporaries?
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Only the shallow know themselves.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young, 1882
- The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
- But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
- Biography lends to death a new terror.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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