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 bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.
I must remember that a good friend is a new world.
A mask tells us more than a face.
Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.
After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
Time is a waste of money.
It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.