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OSCAR WILDE (OSCAR FINGAL O'FLAHERTIE WILLS WILDE) Irish dramatist, poet and novelist, leader in esthetic movement (1854 - 1900)   Displaying page 1 of 8    Next Page >>  A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.       - [Dreams] A kiss may ruin a human life.       - [Kisses] A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.       - [Happiness] A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.       - [Thinking] A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.       - [Morality] A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.       - [Debt] A poet can survive everything but a misprint.       - [Poets] A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.       - [Sentiment] A true friend stabs you in the front.       - [Friends] A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.       - [Flirtation] A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.       - [Art] After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.       - [Dinner : Forgiveness] Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.       - his last words [Last Words] Alas, I am dying beyond my means.       - as he sipped champagne on his deathbed         [Death] All art is quite useless.       - [Art] All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.       - [Poetry] All great ideas are dangerous.       - [Ideas] Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.       - [Forgiveness] Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.       - [Ambition] America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.       - [America] America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.       - [America] An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.       - [Youth] And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.       - [Listening] Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.       - [Right] Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.       - [History] Displaying page 1 of 8 for this author:   Next >>  [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 The GIGA name and the GIGA logo are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. GIGA-USA and GIGA-USA.COM are servicemarks of the domain owner. Copyright © 1999-2018 John C. Shepard. All Rights Reserved. Last Revised: 2018 December 10 Support GIGA.  Buy something from Amazon.

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