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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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Journalism
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
Journalism
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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Music
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Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
Music
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As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked on as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
War
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Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
Romance
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Education
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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Love
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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Music
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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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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
Temptations
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As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Wickedness
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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.
Advice
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Age
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