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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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling
All art is quite useless
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament
A true friend stabs you in the front
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing
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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