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
He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.
It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.
There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.
There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.
I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.
It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."
Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.