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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/7717/">Quotes by <em>Wilde, Oscar</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 November 30, 1900) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer. One of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day, known for his barbed and clever wit, he suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned after being convicted in a famous trial of "gross indecency" for homosexual acts. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity."

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"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."

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"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

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"Once can survive everything nowadays, except death."

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"Alas, I am dying beyond my means."

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"For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die."

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"I am dying beyond my means."

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"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."

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"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."

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"She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman."

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