I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

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About Oscar Wilde

Portrait of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in...

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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

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Women are made to be loved, not understood.

We all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent among them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary.

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Those are my principles, and if you don't like them… well, I have others.

—Groucho Marx

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In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principles contain it or stand against it.

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Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

—Anatole France

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Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others.

—Groucho Marx

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I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

—Gustave Courbet

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