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Oscar Wilde Quotes
«I love acting. It is so much more real than life.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
acting, Acts of Love
«The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Intelligence
| Keywords:
instrument, intellect, plays, serious
«There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
fact, facts of life, future, her, Her husband, husband, invariably, In a, lover, past, past life, real, The Facts of Life, The Lovers, tragedy, woman
«It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Appearance
| Keywords:
appearances, shallow, shallower, shallowest, shallows
«The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
body, done with, luxury, mode, pleasure, purification, recollection, recollections, regret, remains, sin, sins, The Body
«To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
British, British and, disagree, disagree with, fourths, requisites, sanity, the British, three-fourths
«People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.»
«The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.»