855 ordspråk av Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde föddes den October 16th 1854 och dog den 30 November 1900 - Irish writer
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 Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.

 Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

 Time is waste of money.

 To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.

 To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

 To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

 To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

 To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing.

 To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity

 To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual

 To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life

 To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

 To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies

 To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable

 To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people


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