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«Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.»
«The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
oldest, three hundred, tradition
«Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
canonize, canonized, delightful, detestable, edition, editions, formerly, Great Books, vulgarize, vulgarized
«Biography lends to death a new terror.»
«While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Charity,
Freedom
| Keywords:
claims, conformity, yield
«Those whom the gods love grow young.»
«While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Realism
| Keywords:
dramatist, dramatists, look to, realism
«Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.»
«How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June. . . . If it was only the other way! If it was I who were to be always young, and the picture that were to grow old! For this--for this--I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give!»
«They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
conjugal, fascinating, felicities, felicity, flaunt, flaunted, flaunting
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