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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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
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane
Illusion is the first of all pleasures
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
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world
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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