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Letter "O" » Oscar Wilde Quotes
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«Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
indiscretion, indiscretions, innocence
«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 past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Future,
Past,
The Present
| Keywords:
artists, importance
«The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
expresses, idea, My ideas, sincerity, The Express, The Man, The Man Who, To do, value
«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.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
cease, fascination, fascinations, Long War, looked, More popular than, popular, popular with, regarded, vulgar, wick, wicked, wickedest
«The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.»
«If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
civilize, civilized, civilizes, civilizing, English, Irish, the English, the Irish
«History is merely gossip»
«Philanthropy seems to me to have become simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
annoy, Fellow Creature, philanthropy
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