Oscar Wilde

Country Ireland
Born Tuesday, 30 November -0001
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Quotes 439
He is a great irish poet.
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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. Uncategorized
I love acting. It is so much more real than life. Uncategorized
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. Uncategorized
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Uncategorized
I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible. Uncategorized
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. Uncategorized
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. Uncategorized
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Uncategorized
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. Uncategorized
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. Uncategorized
To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. Uncategorized
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Uncategorized
Do not speak ill of society, Algie. Only people who can't get in do that. Uncategorized
One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. Uncategorized
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. Uncategorized
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. Uncategorized
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. Uncategorized
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture. Uncategorized
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. Uncategorized
Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there. Uncategorized