Oscar Wilde Quotes
The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
Topics
Analysis
Complexity, Complexities
Human Nature
Nature
Subjectivity
Individuality
People
Psychology
Emotional Intelligence
Human Behavior
Collective Consciousness
Behavioral Patterns
Cultural Anthropology
Emotional Depth
Personality Traits
Psychological Insight
Social Dynamics
Societal Norms
Universal Truth
individual motivations
People Analysis
Citations
Wilde, Oscar. "The Decay of Lying." Intentions, Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1891, p. 17.
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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one of the most popular playwrights in London. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46.