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“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
Oscar Wilde book The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Pt. I, st. 7
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
Source: The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune … to lose both seems like carelessness.”
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Lady Bracknell, Act I
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mrs. Arbuthnot http://books.google.com/books?id=RHkWAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Children+begin+by+loving+their+parents+after+a+time%22+%22they+judge+them+rarely+if+ever+do+they+forgive+them%22&pg=PA187#v=onepage, Act IV <br class="br">A Woman of No Importance (1893) <br class="br">Variant: Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. <br class="br">Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance
Source: A Woman of No Importance
“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Variant: Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six month.
“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
As quoted in Oscar Wilde : An Idler's Impression (1917) http://books.google.com/books?id=ddAVAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=edgar+saltus+wilde&cd=3#v=snippet&q=satisfied&f=false by Edgar Saltus, p. 20