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
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.
If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
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.
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.
I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much
I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.