523 Famous Quotes by Oscar Wilde
10/16/1854 - 11/30/1900
Also Known As:
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Fingal O'Flahertie Wills
Oscar. Wilde
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About Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams and plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment which was followed by his early death.
Wilde's parents were successful Dublin intellectuals. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art", and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day.
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May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.
Optimism
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Optimism
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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life
Paradox
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Passion
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
People
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Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your actions, for they become habits.Watch your habits, for they become character.Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
Personality
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Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation.
Pleasure
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
Poets
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Principles
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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
Reason
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