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
An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.
Sphinxes without secrets.
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.
The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ
One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.
Any map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at.
Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.
Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.
Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.
The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.
Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope