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
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Lewis Morris: "It is a conspiracy of silence against me - a conspiracy of silence! What should I do?" Oscar Wilde: "Join it
LORD ILLINGWORTH: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. / MRS. ALLONBY: It ends with Revelations.
Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.
On refusing to make alterations to one of his plays: Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell anything.
One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.
One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give interest to one's old age.
One should play fairly when one has the winning cards
One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one
One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about.