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
One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.
Any map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at.
Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
I'm too old to know everything
Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.
I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.
I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.
I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.
I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.
To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.
He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.
Outcasts always mourn.