Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde was

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Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet and author

Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the more. .

“ Oscar Wilde: True friends stab you in the front. #Friendship

“ Oscar Wilde: True friends stab you in the front. #Friendship

“ Oscar Wilde: Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. #Marriage

“ Oscar Wilde: Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. #Marriage

“ Oscar Wilde: I know, of course, how important it is not to keep

“ Oscar Wilde: I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life. #Meetings

“ Oscar Wilde: One's past is what one is. It is the only way

“ Oscar Wilde: One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged. #Past

“ Oscar Wilde: What is said of a man is nothing. The point is,

“ Oscar Wilde: What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it. #Slander

“ Oscar Wilde: For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than

“ Oscar Wilde: For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die. #Death and Dying

“ Oscar Wilde: One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.

“ Oscar Wilde: One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything. #Trust

“ Oscar Wilde: Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at

“ Oscar Wilde: Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all. #Arts and Artists

“ Oscar Wilde: Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to

“ Oscar Wilde: Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you. #Speakers and Speaking

“ Oscar Wilde: There is only one class in the community that thinks more

“ Oscar Wilde: 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. #Money

“ Oscar Wilde: A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for

“ Oscar Wilde: A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. #Truth

“ Oscar Wilde: Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. #Experience

“ Oscar Wilde: Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. #Experience

“ Oscar Wilde: I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be

“ Oscar Wilde: I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in gaol is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long. #Prison

“ Oscar Wilde: One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.

“ Oscar Wilde: One should always play fair when one has the winning cards. #Gambling

“ Oscar Wilde: It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone. #Change

“ Oscar Wilde: It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone. #Change

“ Oscar Wilde: Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

“ Oscar Wilde: Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. #History and Historians

“ Oscar Wilde: One's real life is so often the life that one does

“ Oscar Wilde: One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead. #Fantasy

“ Oscar Wilde: None of us can stand other people having the same faults

“ Oscar Wilde: None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. #Faults

“ Oscar Wilde: If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very

“ Oscar Wilde: 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. #Goodness

“ Oscar Wilde: I always like to know everything about my new friends, and

“ Oscar Wilde: I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones. #Friends and Friendship

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