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
A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.
A man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the exquisites who are going to rule.
America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up
They are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts public attention from their own.
This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.
You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.
Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything, and when they grow older, they know it
A damsel is a genius in the daytime and a beauty at night.
A cynic is someon who knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes