I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon, I put it back in again.

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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Who, being loved, is poor?

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

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How else but through a broken heart may Christ enter in?

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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Contrary to what many of you might imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks—chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to sit down and write.

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You do not write your life with words. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

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