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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet [more author details]
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891, preface
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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.
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Oscar Wilde, The Soul of a Man Under Socialism, the works of Oscar Wilde ed. G., 1954
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Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.
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Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
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Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism (1881)
I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.
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Oscar Wilde, upon being told the cost of an operation
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