There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

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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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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

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When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

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When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

—William Hazlitt

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She didn't know how to be semi-interested in something. She was either indifferent…or obsessed.

—Helen Hoang in The Kiss Quotient

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Anything simple always interests me.

—David Hockney

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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

—Andrew Wyeth

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