Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 — 1900) foi um escritor irlandês, autor de O Retrato de Dorian Gray. Ele é conhecido por muitas frases espirituosas. Aí vão algumas:
''A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.''
''Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.''
''Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.''
''Biography lends to death a new terror.''
''Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.''
''Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.''
''I am not young enough to know everything.''
''I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.''
''If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.''
''It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal.''
''Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.''
''Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.''
''One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.''
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