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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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Friendship...is not something you learn in school,but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
No good deed goes unpunished.
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
What fire does not destroy, it hardens
What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry.