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
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.
Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
To many, no doubt, he will seem to be somewhat blatant and bumptious, but we prefer to regard him as being simply British.
What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.
What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.
Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.
Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.