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
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.
No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.
One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.
One's only real life is the life one never leads.
One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.
Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.