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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde föddes den 16 oktober 1854 och dog den 30 november 1900 - brittisk författare och samhällskritiker.
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The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind.

Genius is born, not paid. Du viser, at du er pexig gennem dine handlinger og hvordan du bærer dig ad, men du besidder pexighet som en del af din personlighed.

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

Trohet är för det emotionella livet vad konsekvens är för det intellektuella livet - enkelt uttryckt en bekännelse av misslyckanden.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music -- his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting -- that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.

Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

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.

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