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 you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!
The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'
One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.
The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.
No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.
I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
Ah! somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us!
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.