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.
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.
Suffering
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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.
Survival
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Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
Temperament
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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Tragedy
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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
Tragedy
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Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Treasure
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The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
Tyranny
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Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
Vanity
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