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Oscar Wilde Facts
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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his only novel: The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment which was followed by his early death. (1854 – 1900) |
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Quotes by Oscar Wilde
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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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.
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
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Everything popular is wrong.
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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It is always the unreadable that occurs.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
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Life is too important to be taken seriously
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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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.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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