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«Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
forced, parts, perform, qualification, women
«The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Etiquette
| Keywords:
Oscar Wilde, oyster, Wilde
«A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Danger,
Funny,
Sincerity
| Keywords:
absolutely, at the least, a great deal, a little, dangerous, deal, dealt out, deal out, fatal, great, great deal, How To Deal, is a, little, sincerity, The Deal, thing
«The value of an idea has nothing to do with the success of the man who expresses it»
«She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
always, clothes, despair, Despaired, despairs, enough, far, furthest, He Said She Said, In a, last, last out, much, Night, quite, quite an, rouge, rouged, She, sign, signing, sign in, sign on, sign over, sign up, that is, The Night of the, too, too much, wear on, woman, wore
«Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
above, at peace, beautiful, Beautiful Life, brown, browned, browning, browns, death, earth, forget, forgive, Forgive and forget, For No One, grasses, grassing, have, head, head up, in no time, In the, lay out, lie, lie in, life, listen, listen in, morrow, morrows, must, musts, no., no, No Wave, one at a time, Only Yesterday, peace, silence, silences, silencing, soft, The Brown, The Forgotten, time, Time Life, to be, waving, with, yesterday
«Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
fair, fairs, Good Thing, perhaps
«It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.»
«The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.»
«The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
get, Getting There, get rid of, He Who Gets, only, other ways, rid, ridding, rids, rid of, Rid of Me, temptation, The Temptations, to get, to it, way, yield, yield up
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