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
Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.
There is no Mystery so great as Misery.
To be popular I must be mediocre.
Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.
All women are rebels.
George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.
If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.
Life is like a box of terrible analogies...
What the hell is an oboe?
I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.
There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.