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
Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
A truly good woman comes in only two types: One who knows nothing and the other who knows everything.
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
A true friend stabs you in the front.
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature it requires, in fact, that nature of a true Individualist to sympathize with a friend's success.
A sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.
As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else, if she is plain.
The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life
There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope