Oscar Wilde

Country Ireland
Born Monday, 30 November -0001
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Quotes 439
He is a great irish poet.
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“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.” Uncategorized
“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.” Uncategorized
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.” Uncategorized
“Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword” Uncategorized
“Everything in moderation, including moderation.” Uncategorized
“There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.” Uncategorized
“There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.” Uncategorized
“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” Uncategorized
“Youth is wasted on the young.” Uncategorized
“There is no sin except stupidity.” Uncategorized
“Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.” Uncategorized
“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.” Uncategorized
“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.” Uncategorized
“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” Uncategorized
“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.” Uncategorized
“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.” Uncategorized
“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.” Uncategorized
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.” Uncategorized
“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.” Uncategorized
“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.” Uncategorized