Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wildewas an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 October 1854
CityDublin, Ireland
CountryIreland
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Things last either too long, or not long enough,
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes
Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.
Argument are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
A truly good woman comes in only two types: One who knows nothing and the other who knows everything.
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.