Oct 16, 1854 - Nov 30, 1900
was an Irish writer and poet
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The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.
memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away
Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde.
Punctuality is the thief of time.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
I can resist anything except temptation.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.
He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.
Moderation is a fatal thing: nothing succeeds like excess.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Yet each man kills the thing he loves...
Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them, women will forgive them anything, even their gigantic intellects.
