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Dramatiker, Erzähler, Lyriker, gilt als führender Vertreter des "l‘art pour art - Kunst um der Kunst willen", "Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray", "Ein idealer Gatte", "Das Gespenst von Canterville", "Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung" (Irland, 1854 - 1900).

Oscar Wilde · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Oscar Wilde wäre heute 170 Jahre, 0 Monate, 0 Tage oder 62.092 Tage alt.

Geboren am 16.10.1854 in Dublin
Gestorben am 30.11.1900 in Paris
Sternzeichen: ♎ Waage

• Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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• Morality is simply the attitude we adopt to people whom we personally dislike.

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• Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.

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• More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.

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• Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined oneself over poetry is an honor.

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• Mr Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

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• Mrs. Allonby: They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris. Lady Hunstanton: Indeed? And when bad Americans die, where do they go to? Lord Illingworth: Oh, they go to America.

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• Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.

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• My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

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• My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

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• No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.

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• No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

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• Of course, America had been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

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• One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

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• One shoud never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell that would tell anything.

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• One should absorb the color of life, but one should never remember its details.

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• One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

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• One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

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• One should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.

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• One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.

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