While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance

Quote by Oscar Wilde

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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own...

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own...

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde

Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.

Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives....

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives....

People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run...

People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run...

There is no sin except stupidity.

There is no sin except stupidity.

True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they've gotta...

True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they've gotta...

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead...

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead...

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...

We all live in the gutter but some of us are looking up at the...

We all live in the gutter but some of us are looking up at the...

Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are

Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life.

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the...

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the...