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
If there is anything in the world more annoying than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them
In America, the young are always ready to give to those older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever
I may have said the same thing before...but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.
If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from the table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days.
But I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching
How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.
Charity, dear Miss Prism, charity! None of us are perfect. I myself am peculiarly susceptible to draughts.
By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.