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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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

Oscar Wilde

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Oscar Wilde

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Oscar Wilde

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Oscar Wilde

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

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Who, being loved, is poor?

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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

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Women are made to be loved, not understood.

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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Oscar Wilde

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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About Oscar Wilde:

Author Bio