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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“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.” Uncategorized
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” Uncategorized
“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?” Uncategorized
“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.” Uncategorized
“I have nothing to declare except my genius.” Uncategorized
“Who, being loved, is poor?” Uncategorized
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” Uncategorized
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.” Uncategorized
“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.” Uncategorized
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his. Uncategorized
“I can resist anything except temptation.” Uncategorized
“I can resist anything except temptation.” Uncategorized
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.” Uncategorized
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” Uncategorized
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” Uncategorized
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.” Uncategorized
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.” Uncategorized
“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.” Uncategorized
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” Uncategorized
“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.” Uncategorized