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
All that we know who lie in gaol - Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long
If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any
And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, none knew so well as I: for he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.
I can believe anything as long as it is incredible
The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to lifethat nothing else can bring.
Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them
I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication.
A true friend stabs you in the front.
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.
The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about.
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.