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Oscar Wilde Quotes
«A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude»
«You know what a woman's curiosity is»
«The gaudy leonine sunflower Hangs black and barren on its stalk, And down the windy garden walk The dead leaves scatter,- hour by hour»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
barren,
barrens,
barren of,
black,
gaudiest,
gaudy,
hangs,
leonine,
scatter,
scattering,
stalk,
stalked,
stalking,
stalks,
sunflower,
sunflowers,
The Dead,
windy
«Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
behind,
close,
creeps,
creep in,
creep up,
crept,
face,
follows,
hungriest,
hungry,
lanes,
misery,
morning,
poverty,
shame,
shamed,
shames,
shaming,
sin,
sits,
sodden,
sunless,
wakes
«To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
accurate,
culture,
description,
descriptions,
historian,
inalienable,
occupation,
occurred,
privilege,
proper
«It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal»
«Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
crossed,
crossing over,
Crossing the,
cross out,
doomed,
dooms,
each other,
had,
in passing,
in two ways,
I Pass,
I Say No,
made,
pass,
passes out,
pass out,
said,
shipped,
shipping,
ships,
sign,
signing,
sign in,
sign of the cross,
sign on,
sign over,
sign up,
storm,
storming,
word
«The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Life,
Self-development
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Keywords:
aim,
development,
here,
perfectly,
realize,
self,
take aim
«Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.»
«Self denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.»