Oscar Wilde quotes was an Irish writer and poet Born: 10/16/1854 Died: 11/30/1900 Country: united_kingdom

• The best way to make children good is to make them happy. (Oscar Wilde)
• Charity creates a multitude of sins. (Oscar Wilde) [charity]
• She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit. (Oscar Wilde) [society/past]
• Once can survive everything nowadays, except death. (Oscar Wilde) [death]
• Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness. (Oscar Wilde) [age]
• Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid. (Oscar Wilde) [career/take/age/age]
• What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. (Oscar Wilde) [price/value]
• Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. (Oscar Wilde) [parents/time]
• The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. (Oscar Wilde) [books/books/shame]
• As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. (Oscar Wilde) [look]
• Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography. (Oscar Wilde)
• Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself. (Oscar Wilde)
• The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered. (Oscar Wilde) [life]
• Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. (Oscar Wilde) [parents/respect]
• All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction. (Oscar Wilde) [people/attraction]
• 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. (Oscar Wilde) [dreams//feelings/form]
• 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. (Oscar Wilde) [ignorance/life/culture]
• It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes. (Oscar Wilde) [day/servant]
• It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone. (Oscar Wilde) [thing]
• Bad manners make a journalist. (Oscar Wilde) [bad/etiquette]
• There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People. (Oscar Wilde) [tyranny/soul & body/tyranny/tyranny]
• Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. (Oscar Wilde) [tyranny]
• She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. (Oscar Wilde) [night/clothes]
• Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night. (Oscar Wilde) [eyes/sin/face/morning]
• Alas, I am dying beyond my means. (Oscar Wilde)
• For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die. (Oscar Wilde) [more/more]
• I am dying beyond my means. (Oscar Wilde)
• There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all. (Oscar Wilde) [thing/books]
• With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized. (Oscar Wilde) [evening/reputation/being]
• It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes. (Oscar Wilde) [artist]
• The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. (Oscar Wilde) [people]

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