Oscar Wilde
Ireland
16 Oct 1854 // 30 Nov 1900
Playwright / Novelist / Poet
16 Oct 1854 // 30 Nov 1900
Playwright / Novelist / Poet
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays