Oscar Wilde

BioData:

• Full Name: Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
• DoB: 16 October 1854
• PoB: Dublin, Ireland
• Nationality: Irish
• Language Spoken: English, French
• Death: 30 November 1900 (aged 46)
• Education:  Trinity College, Dubln, Magdalen College, Oxford
• Spouse: Constance Lloyd d. 1898
• Notable Work:  The Importance of Being Ernest; The Picture of Dorian Gray

Wilder Side of Oscar Wilde

A man who moralises is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralises is invariably plain.

– Oscar Wilde

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

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After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relative.
– Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
—Oscar Wilde

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All art is quite useless.

– Oscar Wilde

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A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist.  It lacks imperfection.
~Oscar Wilde
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Anybody can make history.  Only  a great man can write it.

– Oscar Wilde

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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
– Oscar Wilde

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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. – Oscar Wilde

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Charity creates a multitude of sins.

– Oscar Wilde

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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them, rarely if ever, do they forgive them. – Oscar Wilde

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

– Oscar Wilde

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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man’s original viture.  It is through disobedience that progress ha been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

– Oscar Wilde

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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

– Oscar Wilde

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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

– Oscar Wilde

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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

– Oscar Wilde

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

~Oscar Wilde

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“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

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God and other artists are always a little obscure.
~Oscar Wilde
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.  ~Oscar Wilde

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I have the simplest tastes. I’m always satisfied with the best.

– Oscar Wilde

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It is better to be beautiful than to be good.  But… it is better to be good than to be ugly. – Oscar Wilde

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I have nothing to declare except my genius.

– Oscar Wilde

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If one hears bad music it is one’s duty to drown it in conversation.
– from The Picture of Dorian Gray

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If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want.
~Oscar Wilde
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If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.
from The Importance of Being Earnest.

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I like to do all the talking myself.  It saves time, and prevents arguments.

– Oscar Wilde

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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.

– Oscar Wilde

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I suppose publishers are untrustworthy. They certainly always look it.
– Oscar Wilde

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
—Oscar Wilde

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I can resist everything except temptation.
– Oscar Wilde

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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
– Oscar Wilde

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
-Oscar Wilde

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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.  Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

– Oscar Wilde

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Men always want to be a woman’s first love.  Women have a more subtle instinct: what they like is to be a man’s last romance.
– Oscar Wilde
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Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious; both are disappointed.

– Oscar Wilde

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No great artist ever sees things as they really are.  If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
~Oscar Wilde

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Now and then it is a joy to have one’s table red with wine and roses.
– Oscar Wilde

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One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.
~Oscar Wilde

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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your  life.

– Oscar Wilde

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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art.  Whatever is popular is wrong.

– Oscar Wilde

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Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths.  Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.  To morals belong the lower and less intellectual spheres.
~Oscar Wilde

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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people’s lives alone, not interfering with them.
– Oscar Wilde
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
– Oscar Wilde

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.  (LOL, ;)Jean)

– Oscar Wilde

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The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

– Oscar Wilde

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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
– Oscar Wilde

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The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.
-Oscar Wilde

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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

– Oscar Wilde

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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
– Oscar Wilde
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

– Oscar Wilde

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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

– Oscar Wilde

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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is not more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
– Oscar Wilde

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True friends stab you in the front.
– Oscar Wilde

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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies. ~Oscar Wilde

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To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.  ~Oscar Wilde

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We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course language.

– Oscar Wilde

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We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

– Oscar Wilde

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
– Oscar Wilde

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

– Oscar Wilde

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Who, being loved, is poor?
~Oscar Wilde

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.
– Oscar Wilde

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“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
-Oscar Wilde