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Letter "O" » Oscar Wilde Quotes
«It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors»
«I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Appreciation,
God
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Keywords:
ability,
creating,
god,
His,
overestimate,
overestimated,
overestimates,
sometimes,
somewhat,
think
«All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Men and Women
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Keywords:
all women,
become,
mothering,
mothers,
No Man,
that is,
their,
tragedy,
women
«How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
clever,
cleverer,
cleverest,
dear,
dears,
how,
mean,
never,
say,
single,
singled,
singles,
singling,
word,
wording,
word for word,
word meaning
«Bad artists always admire each others work.»
«People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
People
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Keywords:
absurdly,
accurately,
chickens,
chicken out,
count,
hatched,
hatches,
hatching,
wisely
«The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.»
«Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Conscience,
Egotism,
Sin,
Vanity
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Keywords:
all,
all told,
being,
conscience,
egotist,
egotists,
is a,
makes,
nothing,
one,
sinner,
tell on,
The Telling,
told,
U.S.,
us,
vain
«Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
Advances,
begins,
blocked,
blocking,
block out,
ends,
resisting,
retreat,
retreated,
retreating,
retreats
«I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Compliments,
Men and Women
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Keywords:
complimented,
compliments,
enormously,
heap,
heaped,
heaping,
heap up,
her,
mean,
pleasing,
says,
see,
Seeing Things,
should,
The Whole Man,
whole,
why,
woman