![]() chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details of the doings of people of absolutely no interest whatsoever. He Was Born Inside What Is Now Trinity College Oscar Wilde was born on the 16th of October 1854 in Dublin, Ireland. "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. ![]() What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.Īnd what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich. ![]() The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. He has fought a good fight and has had to face every difficulty except popularity. The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life. The play was a great success, but the audience was a failure. I suppose Society is wonderfully delightful. OSCAR WILDE, attributed, Lying Fully Clothed Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.Įverything in the world is about sex except sex. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me.
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