Oscar Wilde
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 late 19th century and is regarded by many as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency for homosexual acts.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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No man should have a secret from his wife; she invariably finds out.
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A man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
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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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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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More than half modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.
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To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.