Irish - Dramatist | October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde
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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
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