Top 10 Oscar Wilde Quotes and Why He Said Them\r
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Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet, writer, and wit who was an integral part of the fin de siècle group of artists who made up the Aesthetic movement of the late nineteenth century. As a young man, he attended Trinity College in Dublin, and then applied for, and won, a demyship at Magdalen College at Oxford University. There, he became a freemason, even though he was fascinated with Catholicism. It was at Magdalen College that Wilde came into his own, reading, writing, wearing his hair long, and refusing to conform to social norms. He decorated his rooms lavishly and entertained visitors almost daily.\r
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10. A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.\r
9. The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.\r
8. All great ideas are dangerous. \r
7. If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesnt. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.\r
6. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.\r
5. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.\r
4. If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise theyll kill you.\r
3. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.\r
2. The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.\r
1. My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.\r
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Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet, writer, and wit who was an integral part of the fin de siècle group of artists who made up the Aesthetic movement of the late nineteenth century. As a young man, he attended Trinity College in Dublin, and then applied for, and won, a demyship at Magdalen College at Oxford University. There, he became a freemason, even though he was fascinated with Catholicism. It was at Magdalen College that Wilde came into his own, reading, writing, wearing his hair long, and refusing to conform to social norms. He decorated his rooms lavishly and entertained visitors almost daily.\r
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10. A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.\r
9. The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.\r
8. All great ideas are dangerous. \r
7. If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesnt. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.\r
6. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.\r
5. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.\r
4. If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise theyll kill you.\r
3. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.\r
2. The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.\r
1. My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.\r
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