There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

—Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray

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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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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

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Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

—William Safire

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The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence and back into bondage.

—Fraser Tyler

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To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

—Dorothy Thompson

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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

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