Oscar Wilde ✓

(1854–1900) essayist United Kingdom

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[Wikidata] Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)... | [Wikipedia] Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the

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• Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress,… Aesthetics
• We women adore failures. They lean on us. Adore
• The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity. Fanatic
• The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them. Always Gives
• The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful. Existence
• Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask… Ask
• The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. America
• Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary. Brink
• Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them? Earth
• Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. Always Want
• However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive. Always Nice
• I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures. Assume
• I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot. Changed
• The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water. English
• Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. Funny
• America is one long expectoration. America
• Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men. All
• The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory. Clear
• It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why… Absolutely
• 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… Accepting
• Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building. Building
• He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. All
• The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great. Evolution
• Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. Arrests
• Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or… Any

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