About Oscar Wilde:

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.

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You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing. You lost life's secret.

Oscar Wilde

Die Männer heiraten, weil sie müde sind, die Frauen, weil sie neugierig sind. Beide werden enttäuscht.

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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

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Kinder lieben ihre Eltern zuerst. Nach einer Weile beurteilen sie sie. Selten, wenn je, verzeihen sie ihnen.

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Wenn ein Mann alt genug ist, um unrecht zu tun, so sollte er alt genug sein, um recht zu tun.

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Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben.

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Für den Philosophen sind die Frauen der Triumph der Materie über den Geist, - genau wie die Männer der Triumph des Geistes über die Moral sind.

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In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffer...

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Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.

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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

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Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become ab...

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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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This trespass had not come without a price. Living un-lives, material comforts and luxuries became superfluous, connection to the outside world undesirable, and power their only sustenance. But they had paid gladly, considering this “humanity” a ...

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Time no longer mattered. He knew he would have plenty of it at his disposal. The sight of the star filled him with indescribable longing.

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Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither I slipped in blood, which is an evil omen; and I heard, I am sure I heard in the air a beating of wings, a beating of gian...

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I am not young enough to know everything.

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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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Author Bio

NameOscar Wilde
DescriptionIrish writer and poet
AliasesOscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
BornOctober 16, 1854
DiedNovember 30, 1900
CountryUnited Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland
ProfessionPoet; Playwright; Short Story Writer; Journalist; Children's Writer; Novelist
WorksThe Importance Of Being Earnest; The Picture Of Dorian Gray

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