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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Art, Result, Temperament, Unique, Work

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

Difference, Differences, Early, Men, Too Late

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

America, Detected, Discovery, Funny, Sarcastic, Say

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

Apple, Apples, Brain, Poppy, Red

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

Dangerous, Modern, Old Fashioned, Quite

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

Culture, Giving, Ignorance, Keeps, Modern Journalism, Opinions

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

Glasses, Needs, Optimism, Pessimist, Tell, Twice

Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

Anarchy, Freedom, Kissing, Rule

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

Doe, Eye, Mind, Poet, Seeing, Seer

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

Against, Rebel, Revolt, Usually, Woman

If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

Absolute, Country, Memories, Order, Remain, Tombstone

Talent borrows, genius steals!

Genius, Stealing, Steals, Talent

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Gossip, Morality, Political, Scandal

Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.

Inspirational, Like, Love, Men, Vanity, Women

And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.

Class, Criminals, Disarm, Feebly, Foolish, Trying

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

Despotism, Government, Including, Made, Probably, Unjust

Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.

Coat, Flower, Soul, Summer, Treats, Vanity

Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.

Commit, Commits, Crime, Nobody, Stupid

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Cease, Long, Looked, Political, War, Wicked

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Beauty, Art, Prejudice, Conceive, Artists

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