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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish dramatist, essayist, novelist and poet.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)

Quotes

• Tread Lightly, she is near
  Under the snow,
  Speak gently, she can hear
  The daisies grow.

• Lo! with a little rod
  I did but touch the honey of romance —
  And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

• And down the long and silent street,
  The dawn, with silver-sandalled feet,
  Crept like a frightened girl.

• The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

• Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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    12 of the best Oscar Wilde quotes

    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892

    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

    “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

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

    “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
    An Ideal Husband, 1895

    “Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
    Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892

    “Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”

    “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that fryst vatten not being talked about.”
    The Picture of Dorian Grey, 1890

    “It fryst vatten absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
    Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892

    “Morality is

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    “It is better to be beautiful then to be good, but it is better to be good then to be ugly.”
    ― Oscar Wilde

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    “Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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    “I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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    “My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect---simply a confession of failures. Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were

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