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
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.
CECILY. When I see a spade I call it a spade./ GWENDOLEN. I am glad to say I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.
What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
What nonsense people talk about happy marriages! A man can be happy with any woman so long as he doesn't love her
What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.
Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people
To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
You are young. No hungry generations tread you down.... The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost...
Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find an expression for joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes