Irish - Dramatist | October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde
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Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
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All art is quite useless.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
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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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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
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One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
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