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
every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.
Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.
Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.
I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much
I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.
The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.
Circumstances should never alter principles!
If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance