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

The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891

Was born on: 16.10.1854
About Author: Irish writer and poet

Books

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)

Temptation

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)

Sincerity

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

The Critic as Artist, 1890

Lord Henry

Lord Henry watched him, with his sad smile. He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing. He felt intensely interested. He was amazed at the sudden impression that his words had produced, and, remembering a book that he had read when he was sixteen, which had revealed to him much that he had not known before, he wondered whether Dorian Gray was passing through the same experience.

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)

Men and women marry

Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.

A Woman of No Importance, 1893

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