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
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.
At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.
I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.
Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.
The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.