Oscar Wilde
Ireland
16 Oct 1854 // 30 Nov 1900
Playwright / Novelist / Poet
16 Oct 1854 // 30 Nov 1900
Playwright / Novelist / Poet
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist
My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays