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
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.
Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. The Picture of Dorian Gray
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.
Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.