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Oscar Wilde
Born: 16 October 1854; Dublin, Ireland

Died: 30 November 1900 (aged 46); Paris, France

Occupation: Writer

Language: English, French

Nationality: Irish

Alma mater: Trinity College, Dublin

Period :Victorian era

Genres :Drama, short story, dialogue, journalism


*There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.


*There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.


*There is no sin except stupidity.


*There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.


*To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.


*To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong
romance.


*Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.


*Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.


*Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.


*Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.


*Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.


*Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.


*Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.


*Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.


*Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.


*A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.


*A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.


*A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.


*A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.


*A poet can survive everything but a misprint.


*A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.


*All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.


*An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.


*I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.


*I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.


*It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.


*Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.


*Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.


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Publication Date: 09-15-2011

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Dedication:
This to Oscar Wilde from a huge fancier of his intellect and witticism in Literature.