What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
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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America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.
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There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.
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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.
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Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
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Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
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Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.
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Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
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I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.