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Author
Oscar Wilde
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Works
Books and titles linked to this author
A House of Pomegranates
A Woman of No Importance
An Ideal Husband
Complete Poetry
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
Criticism and Reviews
De Profundis
De Profundis and Other Writings
de Profundis, the Ballad of Reading Gaol, and Other Poetry
Der Sozialismus und die Seele des Menschen
Lady Windermere's Fan
Lady Windermere's Fan / A Woman of No Importance / An Ideal Husband / The Importance of Being Earnest / Salomé
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man
Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
Reviews
Salomé
Teleny
The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
The Autobiography of Oscar Wilde
The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems
The Canterville Ghost
The Complete Fairy Tales
The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde
The Critic as Artist
The Decay of Lying
The Fisherman and His Soul
The Happy Prince
The Happy Prince and Other Stories
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
The Importance of Being Earnest: And Other Plays
The Nightingale and the Rose
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Stories
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Selected Stories
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Fiction, Classics
The Picture Of Dorian Gray; A Moral Entertainment
The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
The Remarkable Rocket
The Selfish Giant
The Soul of Man Under Socialism
The Soul of Man Under Socialism, and Selected Critical Prose
The Soul of Man Under Socialism, the Socialist Ideal Art, and the Coming Solidarity. by Oscar Wilde, William Morris, W.C. Owen
The Star-Child and Other Tales
The Young King & The Remarkable Rocket
Vera or the Nihilists
Quotes
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast
Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.
Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods _ they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.
I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
I'm too old to know everything
He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things.That is exactly what things were originally made for.
Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
I have no objection to anyone__ sex life as long as they don__ practice it in the street and frighten the horses.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.