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Letter "O" » Oscar Wilde Quotes
«Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Fashion,
Religion
| Keywords:
fashionable, substitute
«There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.»
«The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
cipher, communicates, Mean Streets, telegram, telegrams
«Nature is always behind the age»
«35 is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
40th birthday
| Keywords:
remained, thirty-five
«What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
assertion, colorless, ethics, individualism, intensified, intensifies, intensify, monotony, notions, rejection, rejections, saves, stagnate, stagnated, stagnates, termed, The Current
«Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.»
«It (cricket) requires one to assume such indecent postures»
«Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
anniversaries, anniversary, calendars, Mar, reminding, The Sweet, uninteresting
«It is only the modern that ever becomes old fashioned.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Fashion
| Keywords:
fashioned, old fashioned
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