Oscar wilde, a master of paradoxes
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde(16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. He became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is well-known for his novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray", comedies such as "Lady Windermere's Fan" (1892), "A Woman of No Importance" (1893), "An Ideal Husband" (1895) and "The Importance of Being Earnest"
Oscar Wilde is one of my favourite writers. I love him for his brilliant literary style, witty mind, humour, paradoxes. If you never happened to read his comedies, or his full of poetry poignant fairy-tails, you can take time to do it . And they will surely make your weekend. "The picture of Dorian Gray" and "The Balad of Reading Gaol" will take more serious attitude on your part, but you will enjoy them as well.
So , Oscar Wilde
And What Does it Mean to Live Accordiong to Oscar Wilde?
To Love
To Have Simple Tastes
To Have a Lifelong Romance
To Have Experience
To Forgive Your Enemies
Be Loved
Who, being loved, is poor? Oscar Wilde
Be a Dreamer
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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Enjoy the Master of Pardoxes:
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde
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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde
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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
― Oscar Wilde
“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
― Oscar Wilde
“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
― Oscar Wilde
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“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde
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“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde
“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde
“The heart was made to be broken.”
― Oscar Wilde
“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― Oscar Wilde
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde
“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
― Oscar Wilde
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
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“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
― Oscar Wilde
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
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"The Ballad of Reading Gaol" is Oscar Wilde's last poem written in a different style to compare to his other works. He wrote about it:
"It is a new style for me, full of actuality in life in its directness of message and meaning."
In this post I give three out of 109 stanzas comprising the poem. Hope you'll enjoy it. Absolutely brilliant verse and very true and profound meaning.
"Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the hands of Lust,
Some with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.
Some love too little, some too long,
Some sell, and others buy;
Some do the deed with many tears,
And some without a sigh:
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Yet each man does not die."
This man lived a very short life but he did leave a lot for us to enjoy, to laugh and to think over while reading.
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I really enjoyed reading these quotes again. He is one of the most quoted men of all time. Brilliant.
Do you like the poem at the end of the post?To me, it's one of the best from the point of view of verse- making and sound in the English poetry. And its sad meaning is so very true, too.:)
Beautiful post Vera. I can remember as a kid marveling at the different colors of wildflowers in fields. On Dorian gray I'm afraid most kids in schools here would know more about finding Dory instead!
I wouldn't be surprised about schools.Kids read too little nowdays on both sides of the Atlantic.
And as for Oscar Wilde, it's partially due to him that I started writing poetry...Fantastic writer and poet...:)
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Hi Vera, People like Oscar are remembered in Ireland as people with a gift of the gab. Irv.
Not just in Ireland, Irv. He is a world treasure..:)