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
Where there is no love there is no understanding.
He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.
Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.
I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.
It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.
Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic