Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Writer

Oscar Wilde was a renowned Irish playwright and poet, celebrated for his sharp wit and critiques of Victorian society, particularly in works like 'The Picture of Dorian Gray.'

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Born
October 16, 1854
Died
November 30, 1900
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"Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest."

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"Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life."

Beauty Important Engagement
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"The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure."

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"I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy."

Soul Body Flesh
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"When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America"

Paris America Dies
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"We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes."

Eye Men Ears
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"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic."

Spring Feelings Natural
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"My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!"

Girl Sweet Nice
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"Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world."

World This World Irrational
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"The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it."

Talking Mediocrity Ease
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"The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition."

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"Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast."

Meals Moderation Enough
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"The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake."

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"The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious."

Artist Obvious
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