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 gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age.
Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - Ah! there is the sting of life.
The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell anything.
Hear no evil, speak no evil - and you'll never be invited to a party
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
It (cricket) requires one to assume such indecent postures
The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.
I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves -which is the same thing nowadays.
I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.