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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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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious
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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