Irish - Dramatist | October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
Oscar Wilde
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.
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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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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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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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