Creative Quotations from . . .
Oscar Wilde
(1856-1900) born on Oct 16
Anglo-Irish "playwright, novelist". "He was noted for his flamboyant witty, sophisticated plays, e.g., "The Importance of Being Ernest," 1895."
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F
I have put my genius into my life; all I've put into my works is my talent.

R
"I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escaped and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox."
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
N
In all pointed sentences some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
K
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
 
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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "Oxford Dictionary of Quotations," by Oxford University Press, 1979, 1985."
R: "In "Barnes & Noble Book of Quotations," by Robert I. Fitzhenry, 1987."
A: From an Internet collection of quotations.
N: ""On the Bravery of the English Common Soldier," in "Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.," vol. 10, ed. by Sir John Hawkins, 1787."
K: "Erskine, in "The Portrait of Mr. W. H.", ch. 1; first published in "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine," Jul 1889."
   



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