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
The value of an idea has nothing to do with the success of the man who expresses it
Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
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.
A damsel is a genius in the daytime and a beauty at night.
People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately
No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth.
A mans face is his autobiography. A women's face is her work of fiction.
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Punctuality is the thief of time. Wilde I never travel without my diary. One should always have Something sensational to read in the train.
Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.
The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.